Most of the time I’m doing research it’s fairly serious. It can even be depressing. I don’t like thinking about billions of people dying in the next pole shift. There is plenty of evidence that such events happen in a roughly 12,000 year cycle and that the next catastrophe is due in the early 21st … Continue reading
By the late 18th century the Age of Reason was taking over European thinking, and many people stopped taking the Bible’s tales of ancient catastrophes seriously. As geologists concentrated on the slow effects of erosion and sedimentation over thousands of years, even churchgoing Christians paid less and less attention to Noah’s Flood or the fiery … Continue reading