thanks for an interesting article, surprised this one has been hijacked so quickly over dating issues in creationism, most of the others dealing with this topic on FR had a fairly high signal/noise ratio.
Check out parallel information on the Graham Hancock Forum and related sites.
It may be discovered that bad things happen to this planet a lot more often than previous thought. The world dodged a bullet in 1908.
I’ve wondered about this myself for a long time.
The article states that a Hindu myth described that 5 bright planets were aligned...
I recently read that the planets will be aligning again in the year 2012. That’s only 5 years away. I wonder what interesting phenomenon will be headed our way?
Bump for later reference - good thread!
Comet/Asteroid Impacts
and Human Society
ed by Peter T. Bobrowsky
and Hans Rickman
intro (PDF)
due to links here