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some 11,000 years or so ago—when an Ice Age that probably never existed came to an end, and an apparently uniformitarian regime was abruptly terminated. (p. 68) In Siberia “...the picture is everywhere one of appalling disorder, carnage and wholesale destruction, with countless animals and plants frozen in positions of death ever since the day they perished. As a result, their remains are amazingly fresh-looking and are frequently indistinguishable from those of ani- mals and plants that have died mere weeks ago. (p. 124) Flora ...the change from an older Miocene/Pliocene flora to a modern (post-glacial) one, without transitional botanical species, was not only abrupt but occurred geologically very recently indeed. (p. 63) Corals Corals now lie 2,500 to 3,000 ft above sea level in regions that must have lain lower. The geographical distribution of the freshwater sponge (Heteromeyenia ryderi), presently confined to opposite sides of the North Atlantic and incapable of spreading except via freshwater habitats, is a case in point. Continuous land, having freshwater lakes and rivers, must have united these now widely-separated habitats until geologically recent times (p. 242) Micro Fauna “There is no doubt that many mastodons survived in the New World well into Holocene times, when they were seen and hunted by palaeo-Indians. (p. 122) “...convulsions and revolutions violent beyond our experience or conception, yet unequal to the destruction of the globe, or the whole of the human species, have both existed and will again exist... (p. 7) To most naturalists at the time, it was perfectly obvious that some tremendous event had occurred which, among other effects, had fractured hard rocks over immense distances, and had deposited the resultant debris equally extensively as gravels, sands, clays, and muds. The bony remains of hordes of animals which had been destroyed by the event now lay within these deposits, which in northern Sibe- ria, had become permanently frozen. All these interrelated remains thus represented the debris from a former but now-broken world. (p. 8) Clearly any agency capable of venting so much devastation must have been not only awesomely power- ful but must, from the evidence, have affected the entire world. (p. 9) Obviously, any near-approach to the Earth of a massive celestial object possessing high electro-mag- netic potential would, through slowing or halting Earth’s rotation and generating tidal friction, greatly increase the natural level of Earth’s thermal energy. (p. 186) The magnitude of the biological extinctions achieved by the Deluge almost transcends the imagination. It annihilated literally billions of biological units of both sexes and every age indiscriminately. Only 167 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Extinctions of the micro fauna also suggest wide-spread climatic changes. The Mastodons G. H. Toulmin Worldwide Catastrophe Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation