devolution. You see, when they found all the fossils and other such
evidence for evolution, they interpreted it to mean that they had
evolved from lesser organisms. Since they didn't know that time repeats
itself over and over again, ages of time being like the years of the
earth, it was actually the remains of the age before them that they
thought were the remains of their ancestors. In truth, instead of a
great comet hitting the earth and destroying the dinosaurs and many
other living beings, it was the Great Wars, the nuclear wars, that
caused all the damage. And since their perception of the events was
backward, instead of the blasts destroying the dinosaurs and the wholly
mammoths, it was what actually created them, for, you see, after the
nuclear weapons had all been used, everything in the world died, or came
very close to it, all that is, except Daem, which thrived, because of
the delcator beetles.

"There were no 'dinosaurs', only Zards, for when the radiation levels
were still high and unstable, we grew to enormous sizes, and likewise
there were no wholly mammoths, but Canitaurs. And the Neanderthals that
appeared shortly after were not the precursors to humans at all, but the
Munams, who survived on the mainland near Daem because of the corrected
atmosphere, but who were mutilated more than we by the increased
corruption across the sea. The Ice Ages, also, were not as you thought,
but instead mark the position in the last age after the doom of humanity
was played out and everything destroyed. The Big Bang, also, was not at
the beginning, but at the very end, being somehow related to the onset
of the Ice Ages. Your evolutionary theories were close, but the time
tables were rearranged to fit the facts, since time was thought to be
linear.

"That is where our main trouble lies, Jehu, for through geological and