[blam]

"Thanks for the very interesting article. Seems to me that catastrophism is beyond much doubt. Just a question of mechanism. Time to start browsing Amazon for more info."

Ask SunkenCiv to put you on the Catastrophe ping list.

Here's a serious catastrophe for you:

Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)

"The last glacial period was preceded by 1000 years of the coldest temperatures of the Late Pleistocene, apparently caused by the eruption of the Mount Toba volcano. The six year long volcanic winter and 1000-year-long instant Ice Age that followed Mount Toba's eruption may have decimated Modern Man's entire population. Genetic evidence suggests that Human population size fell to about 10,000 adults between 50 and 100 thousand years ago"

[SunkenCiv]

Bah. ;’)