
By AFP Editor
Out of times of unbridled chaos—manufactured by Mother Nature or Man himself—great things can often be accomplished. After all, as English novelist Mary Shelley remarked in 1818, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos.”
For instance, according to many historians, the impetus for the development of religion, astronomy, art, and the organization of civilization itself came not from diligent and uninterrupted effort, but was spurred by a massive cataclysm caused by numerous impacts of a disintegrating comet that hit North America in about 10,850 B.C.
This cosmic disaster resulted in the eradication of Clovis man and much of the mega- and microfauna of North America. Tsunamis of glacial meltwater tore over the landscape, gouging out the earth and tossing muti-ton boulders like pebbles, depositing them hundreds of miles away. The heat released from this event then lit much of North America on fire, as can be attested to by evidence in the geologic record. Eventually, the ash from this event diminished the sunlight, plunging the Earth into a new but relatively short-lived ice age.
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