A New Theory of the Earth the flood. He asserted that the Earth was originally a comet, which God formed from its initial "chaos and void" into a habitable planet. He also argued that the flood itself was caused when the Earth passed through the tail of a comet, which, it was known by that time, are composed largely of water. His analysis was very detailed, and similar ideas were promoted in the 1960s by other creationists postulating causes for the global flood, along with similarity to the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky. However, many of them are in direct conflict with contemporary scientific understandings; and comets
A Marriage Below Zero the first English-language gay-themed novel, and establishes the pattern of gay novels ending in death: especially suicide. Its melodramatic format is closely linked to its author's occupation as a New York drama critic at a time when the primary American theatre form was melodrama. The book met with mixed reviews. An anonymous reviewer in "Bedford's Magazine" described it as ""A saturnalia in which the most monstrous forms of human vice exhibit themselves shamelessly""; while an approving review in the "New York World" described it as ""Absolutely unconventional"". A Marriage Below Zero A Marriage Below Zero is a novel by Alan