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Not only palm trees but animals must have been affected by tsunamis, as geologic time rolled on. this may explain why no animals seem to have been caught flat-footed (so to say) by the wave. Evolution would suggest that those animals were descended from their successful (tsunamiwise) parents, the unsuccessful animals having been unable to produce offspring. The tempting conclusion is that tsunamis were a factor in the Natural Selection of current species.

That is what I was thinking while I was watching CNN and crying inside. If I had been a believer in the supernatural I would have been cursing God. But as a believer in the natural I was saddened, but interested in the lesson Mother Nature had presented. In fact, I was saddened to the point of reaching for my check book. I actually wrote a check to the Red Cross! Not only that I mailed it (actually Kootch mailed it). This is unusual for stingy me. I see CNN as the single most important factor in the unprecedented worldwide response to this unprecedented tragedy.