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Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45



8 And the LORD God planted a
garden
eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man
whom he had formed.

16 And Cain went out from the
presence
of the LORD, and dwelt
in the land of Nod,
on the east of Eden.

GENESIS




The great reptiles were the most successful life forms ever to populate this world. For 140 million years
they ruled the Earth, filled the sky, swarmed in the seas. At this time the mammals, the ancestors of
mankind, were only tiny, shrew-like animals that were preyed upon by the larger, faster, more intelligent


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saurians.

Then, 65 million years ago, this all changed. A meteor six miles in diameter struck the Earth and caused
disastrous atmospheric upheavals. Within a brief span of time over seventy-five percent of all the species
then existent were wiped out. The age of the dinosaurs was over; the evolution of the mammals that they
had suppressed for 100 million years began.

But what if that meteor had not fallen?