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328 pages of results. 381. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology [Articles]
... and that is the problem of dating. Everybody who gets involved with the Velikovsky synthesis, or resynthesis, of history, is quickly introduced to the difficulty of talking about catastrophes several hundreds of years ago, in a world where catastrophes are allowed several billions, or thousands of millions of years ago. And as a working scientist I have ... is possible, and the more stringent the time-scale in terms of long times, the more anomalies become possible. When you are offering a short-term universe, the kind that catastrophists see, almost anything becomes possible. If you form your layers very quickly, you can jumble them all up and it doesn't form any anomaly, it's just what ...
382. Thoth Vol canoes" on the Jovian moon Io, [Journals] [Thoth]
... [ Home ] THOTH -A Catastrophics Newsletter- SUPPLEMENT December 22, 1999 DAVID TALBOTT AND WALLACE THORNHILL TO BE GUESTS OF JEFF RENSE AND "SIGHTINGS ON THE RADIO", JANUARY 10 David Talbott, author of The Saturn Myth, and Australian physicist Wallace Thornhill will be host Jeff Rense's guests on the nationally-syndicated "Sightings on the Radio" ... myth, astronomy, and historical catastrophe. It not only puts the comparative analysis of myth on solid scholarly ground, it presents strong support for Velikovsky and the neo- catastrophist movement. I rate it four stars. Charles Ginenthal, Editor-in-Chief, The Velikovskian, and author Sagan and Velikovsky COSMIC DETECTIVE STORY I have nothing but high praise for ...
383. Earth In Upheaval. File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... in geology and archaeology.(1 ) Actually in the Epilogue to Worlds in Collision I wrote: "Geological, paleontologi-cal and anthropological material related to the problem of cosmic catastrophes is vast and may give a complete picture of past events no less than historical material." My new book, Earth in Upheaval, published in 1955, was ... "(2 ) I gave the history of the theory of catastrophism versus the theory of gradualism and evolution. The Agassiz theory of the ice ages was originally also a catastrophist theory. Agassiz spoke of the sudden arrival of the ice cover seizing the mammoths in Siberia. The north Siberian islands consist of trunks of uprooted trees and bones of ...
384. Immanuel Velikovsky: A Short Biography [Journals] [Pensee]
... Europe apart. For eight months he worked on Oedipus and Akhnaton in the libraries. In April, 1940, Velikovsky was first struck by the idea that a great natural catastrophe had taken place at the time of the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt- a time when plagues occurred, the Sea of Passage parted, Mt. Sinai erupted, and ... convinced, parallels the Book of Exodus, describing the same natural catastrophe, the same plagues. As a result he began to reconstruct ancient Middle Eastern history, taking this catastrophe- which brought the downfall of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom- as a starting point from which to synchronize the histories of Egypt and Israel. He titled his work Ages in Chaos ...
385. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... considerable area of the true ocean bottom is of sial material. Possibly the material of the Moon could have been assembled from explosions occurring in numerous weak spots, with many catastrophic typhoons carrying matter into space. S.K . Vsekhsviatskii, Director of the Kiev Observatory (U .S .S .R .) . has written that ... ; the two have different origins and do not mix. The widespread evidence of marine life on the land, found at all altitudes, does not prove, as many catastrophists and uniformitarians believe, that the land was once below the sea, and below the sea lies other land. They have not caught up with the new oceanography. ...
386. Ancient Mysteries by Peter James & Nick Thorpe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1999:2 (Feb 2000) Home | Issue Contents REVIEWS Ancient Mysteries by Peter James & Nick Thorpe Ballantine Books, New York, 1999 Trevor Palmer Books about ancient mysterie' are generally characterised by poor scholarship, sometimes involving a cynical manipulation of the facts to sell more copies, and sometimes ... . Included amongst these is Immanuel Velikovsky's theory that other planets have caused catastrophes on Earth by making close approaches in recent times. James and Thorpe describe Velikovsky as the great catastrophist' and explain how his writings produced impassioned responses, for as well as against his ideas. However, they then continue, During the 1980s, the Velikovskian bubble ...
387. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mostly complete skeletons of ancient rhinos, horses and camels which he estimates to be about 10 million years old (approx middle Miocene Epoch) and which died a sudden and catastrophic death. ". .the prodigious ashfall blanketed hundreds of square miles. Herds of rhinoceroses, three-toed horses, camels, and tiny sabre-toothed deer, confused and choking ... end of the Cretaceous Period (when the dinosaurs died off) in WORKSHOP 2:4 and successive issues since. One theory seems to be gaining widespread support, the catastrophist ideas of Alvarez et al that 65 million years ago Earth was struck by a giant meteor/asteroid. In SCIENCE 22/8 /80 there was a paper ...
388. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1997:2 (Apr 1998) Home | Issue Contents Editor's Notes Cosmic catastrophism has hardly been out of the news recently: since Comet Hale-Bopp's collision with Jupiter, groups of scientists have been scanning space, looking for Near Earth Objects' which might be on a collision course with Earth and in ... ). Catastrophism Archive Project This is still on track for release this summer. It will be a CD-Rom disc for PCs and Macs which includes the full text of important catastrophist and related literature from the last 25 years, including Aeon, Kronos, Pensée, SIS Review, Workshop & Intenet Digest, The Velikovskian, The Bible, Book ...
389. Velikovsky and his Critics by Shane Mage [Books]
... but one of a vast number of myths related in the sacred books of all civilized, and the sacred traditions of all non-literate, peoples, purporting to tell of awesome catastrophes visited by the Heavenly Gods upon sinful mortals and their hapless world. Not once, but repeatedly, humankind was pictured as devastated, virtually wiped out, by fire ... cultural barriers than do symbolic systems. Even apart from its lack of historical plausibility, diffusionism fails to answer the main questions posed by the "stunning" prevalence of concordant catastrophist traditions: why were earthly catastrophes attributed to celestial "Gods" in the first place, and why would so many alien cultures then adopt the tradition as their own ...
... the vividness of description is also a mark of a saga." A river or sea cleft in two is a frequent motif in folklore. The pursuers probably experienced some catastrophe, not because of a sea rent in twain, but because of a tide swollen by the storm. But an explanation based on ebb and flood tides is obviously ... . Not seen - enemies enter into the temples- weep. To all the previous plagues this was added: pillagers completed the destruction, killing and raping. The double catastrophe-caused by nature and by the invasion-destroyed all class distinction and brought about a social revolution. "Behold, noble ladies go hungry." "Behold, he who slept ...
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