Word: cataclysmic
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...into a seminary library, and it's hard to find scholarly books on apocalyptic theology; academics tend to treat this tradition as sociology. They see End Times interest rising and falling on waves of cataclysm and calm. Masses of people became convinced the end was nigh when Rome was sacked in 410, when the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population of 14th century Europe, when the tectonic shudders of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused church bells to ring as far away as England, and certainly after 1945, when for the first time human beings harnessed...
...standoff is causing concern inside the Bush Administration too. A skirmish over Kashmir could easily accelerate into a broader war. The remote but frighteningly thinkable worst-case scenario would see the two sides escalate in stages to an exchange of nuclear weapons. But even short of that unlikely cataclysm, the seriousness of the dispute requires American diplomatic attention and threatens to affect Washington's war on terror, particularly as Pakistan moves troops away from its western border with Afghanistan to the Kashmir front. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is scheduled to visit India and Pakistan this week...
...moment impresses me more as one of challenge and opportunity than of utter cataclysm and woe,” Lawrence D. Bobo, Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of Afro-American studies, wrote in an e-mail...
...moment impresses me more as one of challenge and opportunity than of utter cataclysm and woe,” Bobo said...
...evidence from ancient lake beds in the Northeast U.S. suggests that the dinosaurs got their big break in the same way our ancestors did, through a cataclysm that killed off competing species. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons.And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants also had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...