"There was this huge noise, then
the shark came up alongside us and jumped into the boat. Coolers
and buckets started flying everywhere. It was like a scene from
'Jaws.' It was really scary."
Yuji Torimi, 51, a Kobe Municipal Government worker on the
Shikishima-maru trawler, wasn't kidding.
He and fellow fisherman working off the coast of Susami, Wakayama,
received the shock of their lives after a 770 pound (350-kilogram)
blue pointer shark suddenly leaped out of the water and into their
fishing boat, injuring Torimi, who suffered broken ribs after the
huge marine creature's tail fin slammed into his chest.
Marine experts don't know what to make of it.
"Blue pointers are normally from foreign seas. They're
man-eaters and you often see them in this area," Takuya Mori,
head of a Susami aquarium, said. "Still, I've never heard of
a shark jumping into a boat before."
Whatever the case, the fishermen who had been looking for squid
took the shark back to the local fish market, where it was cut up.
Evolutionists Celebrate Owen
by Jonathan
Drake
S: The Guardian
(7-20-04)
He was a vehement opponent of Darwin's ideas; the ideas that
said life evolved by natural selection operating on chance random
mutations
over millions of years. He also
identified the dodo, discovered the gorilla for science, and even
was the man who coined the word "dinosaur."
His name was Richard Owen, and last month Britain's leading
evolutionary biologists prepared to celebrate Owen's 200th
birthday with a special exhibition and a Richard Owen trail to be
opened at the museum he founded ... London's Natural History
Museum.
"Owen was an extraordinarily clever scientist," said
Angela Milner, a paleontologist at the museum and one of the
organizers of the exhibition. "He was the leading
comparative anatomist of his day, there is absolutely no doubt
about that. He was a brilliant man, but he was also very
competitive, very arrogant and he didn't want anybody taking his
crown away from him," she said.
Originally, Richard Owen enjoyed a working relationship with the
younger Charles Darwin, but having been a devout Christian from
the beginning, Owen saw creation as a series of experiments by a
Creator, and was angered by Darwin's infamous On the Origin of
Species. People flocked to the lectures of this tall, erudite
scientist, and he didn't disappoint them.
For evolutionists to celebrate Owen speaks volumes for him, nearly
akin to Christians taking the time to stop and celebrate Joseph
Smith. Whatever the case, he certainly contributed to
science in his time like few others.
Florida Woman Killed By Alligator
by
Jonathan Robison
S: Foxnews.com (7-23-04)
She was viciously attacked by 12-foot, 457-pound alligator as she
worked on landscaping behind a home on Sanibel Island, Florida,
and afterwards died in surgery to treat an infection caused by the
animal's vicious bites.
"My mom showed more courage than fear and I could not be more
proud of her," said the daughter of Janie Melsek, Joy
Williams, 29. "She's just absolutely amazed me and our
whole community with the fight she put up."
One of the neighbors who heard her screams was joined by police
officers to save her from the alligator's jaws in what was
described as a fierce "tug-of-war." The reptile
had dragged Janie into a pond, tearing at her right arm so
severely that part of it was later amputated. The gator was
immediately killed by police, which was so massive that it took
six men to lift it to shore.
Alligator attacks in Florida are rarely fatal, without about 13
recorded since 1973.
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