Not exact matches
When one looks at the
various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red
Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking
snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.
He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of
various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles,
sea -
snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.
An eagle eye can be rewarded with sights such as pygmy seahorses,
sea snakes (and
snake eels), frogfish, tiger prawn, cuttlefish and
various nudibranchs.
The cluttered houses were painted
various shades of pastel, the river
snaking from the cradle of the lush mountain valleys in the east through to the
sea beyond.»