Bryson Reading Chapter 4

Quote:"To begin with, it confirmed that God had wiped out creatures not occasionally but repeatedly. This made Him seem not so much careless as peculiarly hostile. It also made it inconveniently necessary to explain how some species were wiped out while others continued unimpeded into succeeding eons. Clearly there was more to extinctions than could be accounted for by a single Noachian deluge, as the Biblical flood was known. Cuvier resolved the matter to his own satisfaction by suggesting that Genesis applied only to the most recent inundation. God, it appeared, hadn't wished to distract or alarm Moses with news of earlier, irrelevant extinctions."

Questions: How was this fact even found out "that God had wiped out creatures not occasionally but repeatedly." Why is this not published in the bible?

Comments: I really would like to now the reason why this would not be published in the bible, if of course if this fact is real.

QQC #3 Bryson Reading Chapter 4

Quote: "Newton's explained so many things—the slosh and roll of ocean tides, the motions of plants, why cannonballs trace a particular trajectory before thudding back to Earth, why aren't we flung into space as the planet spins beneath us at hundreds of miles an hour*—that it took a while for all their implications to seep in. But one revelation became almost immediately controversial."

Question: How is it possible that the cannonballs now were there going after they get shot? How is it possible that when a plane takes of doesn't land in the wrong place if the world is moving so fast?

Comment: I think that this quote could have been written better, because right now I am still a little confused on this topic. I feel as though if this would have been written better it would make more sense and would make me want to know more about it.