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328 pages of results. 291. The Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [Kronos]
... the height of their profession to say that Some aspects of Velikovsky's work are "sound and reasonable", although they stress that the astronomical hypothesis Velikovsky invoked to explain the catastrophic events of prehistory is "quite impossible". "The Velikovsky thesis was . . . not SO much wrong as hopelessly misguided "++ The Cosmic Serpent is a superb ... calculation they have carelessly confused radius with diameter, and then ignored the distinction between pound-mass and pound-force in their subsequent calculations. For credited astronomers, these are embarrassing mistakes. CATASTROPHIST GEOLOGY There are some quite interesting facets to their geological scenario. They postulate rapid continental drift at around 10-100 million times the normal rate of drift.(13) ...
292. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... describe themselves as feeling the situation is unbearable and yet hopeless: "no exit"- "hell". It is associated with visions of wars, epidemics and natural catastrophes. The foetus struggles desperately to escape and save its life. In the initial stages there is intense anxiety, but its source cannot be identified. Later come visions ... 786 BC as the time of the establishment of the hypsomata to be weak. Based as they are on established uniformitarian premises, they are bound to be weak from a catastrophist point of view. One suspects, quite simply, that the original reason for the adoption of the hypsomata, together with the zodiac itself, was the occurrence of ...
293. A Firmament. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... however badly sustained from the scientific point of view. It introduced to our modern generation, bored long since with the endless small accretions of scientific truth, the violence and catastrophism in world events which had so impressed our forefathers. Eiseley's book was written to combat the reemergence of the discarded concept of catastrophic interruptions in history that was the teaching ... something else, was to invest Him with mankind's attributes instead of the other way about". This argument against catastrophism does not sound persuasive or even remotely scientific; the catastrophists of the nineteenth century were operating with geological and paleontological evidence, not with theological argument. Eiseley followed the quote from Gillispie with the statement: "Slowly the accumulation ...
294. Velikovsky: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1995 (Vol XVII) "Proceedings of the SIS 1995 Braziers College Conference" Home | Issue Contents Velikovsky: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Clark Whelton The core of Immanuel Velikovsky's work is deceptively simple, immediately apparent, and easy to overlook, though it is found in the earliest pages of his ... I could see the flow of evidence moving in Velikovsky's direction: rising thermal gradients; hydrocarbons; magnetic anomalies. Most importantly, now that I had viewed human history through catastrophist eyes there was no turning back. Prior to reading Velikovsky, I had often wondered how the uniformitarian scenario I learned in school could have produced the militant cultures and ...
295. Intensity, Scope and Suddenness [Books] [de Grazia books]
... cyclones, how they occur in multiples, of their transporting power, of their relation to volcanism and explosions, and of other characteristics that make them invariably part of a catastrophic scenario. In Solaria Binaria, Milton and I posit thousands of downbursting cyclones as the most logical means for a deluge to bring huge sky waters down to Earth, ... , then we should have to discover and explain some other structural-functional mental dynamic, universal among human groups, that made necessary its elaboration as science-fiction. If the early scientific catastrophists had gone on with their work, we would have learned enough by now to make what I have just stated an epilogue rather than a prologue. "If the ...
296. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... I failed to explain why the atheist declaration (see WORKSHOP 4:1 , p.32) must evoke sympathy from the catastrophist. On reflection, I appreciate that catastrophism and theism are not incompatible, and that to be a believer in God does not necessarily rule out a belief in catastrophism. However, in spite of my mistake ... makes a valid criticism when he observes that I failed to explain why the atheist declaration (see WORKSHOP 4:1 , p.32) must evoke sympathy from the catastrophist. On reflection, I appreciate that catastrophism and theism are not incompatible, and that to be a believer in God does not necessarily rule out a belief in catastrophism ...
297. Bibliography (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... . Science. Hyde Park, NY: University Books.. (1984a). Cosmic Heretics: A Personal History of Attempts to Establish and Resist Theories of Quantavolution and Catastrophe in the Natural and Human Sciences, 1963 to 1983. Princeton: Metron.. (1984b). The Burning of Troy and Other Works in Quantavolution and Scientific ... ." New York Times, (Mar. 1), B1, B6. Clube, Victor and Bill Napier. (1982). The Cosmic Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth History. New York: Universe. Cohen, Daniel. (1965). Myths of the Space Age. New York: Dodd Mead. Cohen ...
298. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1993 No 1 (Aug 1993) Home | Issue Contents REVIEWS Paradigm Lost?The Facts of Life by R.Milton (Fourth Estate, London, 1992) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by C.Sagan and A.Druyan (Century, London, 1992). It is a fair generalisation ... the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University, who has been trained both as an astronomer and a biologist. Sagan has been much reviled in some catastrophist circles for his attacks on the Worlds in Collision scenario of Immanuel Velikovsky. In books such as Broca's Brain and Cosmos, he expressed sympathy towards Velikovsky for attempts which ...
299. Thoth Vol I, No. 23: August 17, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... [ Home ] THOTH -A Catastrophics Newsletter- VOL I, No. 23 August 17, 1997 EDITOR: Michael Armstrong PUBLISHER: Brian Stewart CONTENTS: ANNOUNCEMENTS.................................Kronia ... crisis at the center not just of the Quetzalcoatl myth but of a universal tradition. When the celestial king or prototype of kings died or departed, a world cycle ended catastrophically- AND THE "GREAT COMET" WAS SEEN RAGING IN THE SKY. To amplify this crucial point: it was not just the myth of Quetzalcoatl that reminded rulers of ...
300. Solomon's Temple: An Astronomical Observatory [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History III:1 (Jan 1981) Home | Issue Contents THEORY WORKSHOP Solomon's Temple: An Astronomical Observatory Charles McDowell I. Introduction To some readers the title of this article may appear offensive. It might imply that the basic purpose of the Temple of Solomon was not worship of God but the collection of ... They carefully recorded this information. It would seem probable that, from their data, where extant, we can reconstruct certain orbits just as they observed them. As a catastrophist I understand Diodorus to mean that the Egyptians were aware that the close passage of another planet or of the moon could cause earthquakes or floods. One Egyptian report, ...
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