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THIS STORY READ MORE LIKE CONFIRMAtion of Noah's Deluge than Darwin's theory of evolution. ''Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward...'' Then you report that mud slides poured into the sea, entombing preternatural creatures that became fossilized. With all this evidence, it would be easier to prove Noah's flood than evolution. DEMBIE COPENHAVER Newville, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
...Gospels contain no fewer than 45 references to boats and fishing as they relate to Jesus. In 1986, two members of a Galilean kibbutz came across the remains of a 26-ft.-long wooden dory, buried in the mud near Kinneret on the Sea of Galilee, that has been carbon-dated to the 1st century. Almost certainly, this was the kind of vessel used by Peter, James, John and the other fisherfolk whom Jesus recruited as his first disciples...
...spots. Their stories frequently run three or four minutes--enormous by network-news standards--and have an immediacy that the young audience can relate to. Reporting from Rwanda, correspondent Anderson Cooper took viewers along on a trip through the country in which his car got stuck in the mud and ran out of gas, before reaching scenes of slaughter so grisly he at one point gagged on camera. Cooper was also in Haiti in the days before the downfall of the Cedras regime. His reports had an appealing casualness and intimacy: "I was just listening to some Bob Marley...
...early morning sunlight slanting across the Namibian desert in southwestern Africa happened to illuminate momentarily some strange squiggles on a chunk of sandstone. At first Douglas Erwin, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, wondered if the meandering markings might be dried-up curls of prehistoric sea mud. But no, he decided after studying the patterns for a while, these were burrows carved by a small, wormlike creature that arose in long-vanished subtropical seas - an archaic organism that, as Erwin later confirmed, lived about 550 million years ago, just before the geological period known as the Cambrian...
...human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped midwife complex animal life...