"Many genera of angiosperms became extinct". Their habitat got buried in a world-wide flood. The deposits were subsequently buried so deep that there was no way for the seeds to germinate and reach sunlight.
Angiosperm Mass Extinction
Magnoliaceae, Lauraceae and Juglandaceae
"Angiosperms having affinities with Magnoliaceae, Lauraceae, Juglandaceae". This may seem random but it's nuanced evolution narrative, you just have to know something about the development of Angiosperms.
Dinosaurs Abundant
According to our compilation of doublespeak terms used in Paleobotany and Paleontology "abundant" is a euphemism for eradication. That's what Jurassic sediments preserve: the eradication of dinosaurs.
The Fool has Said in his Heart
Rather than demonstrating that "science" is based on evidence whereas faith isn't, ironically Christopher Hitchens showed that he didn't understand what evidence is or how it's used.
The Mass of the Sun
The current generation of Trekkie scientists assume that you can measure the mass of the sun from a deep space probe. That's what popular science (SciPop) is now, an inductive rationalization of the Star Trek universe.
Eternity and The Heart
Our investigation into the nature of the soul and gravity has led us to realize the importance of a phenomenon known as gravitational time dilation. It's what we euphemistically refer to as the donkey's jawbone.
Present Day Earth
With a few pieces of information we can take what we know about the Earth today and deduce what the Earth was like in the past. This is the alternative to using Uniformitarianism to assume that things were the same in the past.
S-waves
S-waves, secondary or shear waves, travel through the Earth's crust and mantle, they can only propagate through solid material. Shear forces don't exist in liquids or gas.
Direction of Motion
The direction of motion is a clue that we've used to put all of the puzzle pieces together. We could induce a meaning to a passage, or we could compare it to our model and deduce that the pit is lower than the grave.
Down to the Pit, The Lowest Hell
It's been possible to parse the difference in nuance between the various words used to refer to the afterlife, which corresponds to the interior of the Earth, because we have an absolute frame of reference.