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Records of Blood and Stone CHAPTER 7 Of central importance to the proof of the war between the gods is the purely scientific accounts of the devastation that affected the Earth’s flora and fauna: What then has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind is at first irresist- ibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus to destroy animals both large and small...we must shake the entire framework of the globe. No lesser physical event could have brought about this wholesale destruction not only in the Americas but in the entire world...Certainly no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated extermination of its inhabitants. (Charles Darwin - quote from journal, Voyage of the HMS Beagle) Animals that had been native for millions of years disappeared under circumstances that were suspiciously sudden...the loss of over 30 genera of large mammals...and many other species of large animals in North America alone. (Paul S. Martin, Who or What Destroyed Our Mammoths) At the end of the Pleistocene about 10,000 years ago, there was an extinction event that dec- imated the large terrestrial mammalian herbivores and carnivores of North America, South America and Australia. In North America alone, more than 32 genera of mammals became extinct ...The cause of this extinction is debatable... (R. W. Graham, Evolution of New Eco- systems at the End of the Pleistocene) However ingeniously and with whatever subtlety we may deal with our evidence, the facts constrain therefore to one inevitable conclusion...the mammoth and its companions perished by some wide-spread catastrophe which operated over a wide area and not through the slow process of the ordinary struggle for existence...not the result of gradual accumulation...but the result of one of Nature’s hetacombs on a grand and wide-spread scale, when a vast fauna perished simultaneously. (Henry Howarth, The Mammoth and the Flood, 1887) In Europe immense herds of diverse animals utterly vanished off the face of the Earth for no obvious biological reason... 49 From the masterpiece, When the Earth Nearly Died, by scientists Alain and Delair: Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation