Why read The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes?

Book cover of The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture

Book description

Scientific proof validating the legends and myths of ancient floods, fires, and weather extremes

* Presents scientific evidence revealing the cause of the end of the last ice age and the cycles of geological events and species extinctions that followed

* Connects physical data to the dramatic earth changes recounted…

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Natural disasters

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Mythology

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Martin Sweatman

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This is a great introduction to the science of the Younger Dryas impact. Published a year before the seminal paper of Firestone et al. (2007), it makes the case for a devastating cosmic event, probably a meteor or comet impact, circa 10850 BC.

The book combines science with historical accounts and mythology to arrive at this stunning conclusion. Although I think some of the evidence in the book is speculative and possibly wrong, I think their main arguments in 2006 have held up well to intense scrutiny by critics since then. I consider this book to be another essential read…

From Martin's list on coherent catastrophism.