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328 pages of results. 71. When the Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of a Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1995 No 2 (June 1995) Home | Issue Contents When the Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of a Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC by D.S . Allen and J.B . Delair. (Gateway Books, 1995, £13.99 paperback) This is a ... evidence for geological catastrophe the amount of research and detail is impressive, which makes the correspondingly skimpy use of myth and the rather wild astronomical deductions somewhat disappointing. I suppose catastrophists are awaiting the book which will at last make the establishment sit up and take notice but I am afraid this is not that book. If Clube and Napier, ...
72. The 'Unconscious' as a Literary Revolt Against Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and functioned in part so that creative writers (among others) might cope with certain burdensome restraints imposed upon literature by the Uniformitarian (U ) scientific viewpoint that triumphed over Catastrophism (C ) in the early nineteenth century. That is, the Unconscious is not explainable merely as an accident of the history of psychology, nor as a necessary ... is to be hoped that a more sympathetic reception will follow, and possibly that another scholar may take up the theme.) The final success of the uniformitarian over the catastrophist paradigm in the mid-19th century signaled a class of scientific restraints upon literature. Writers had to conform to a demanding science that viewed the universe as ordered and regular, ...
73. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the Stars"in the books of the Sibylline Oracles. Kugler is rare among trained specialists in history and astronomy in giving some credence to the possibility of large-scale natural catastrophes, but nevertheless finds himself constrained by the orthodox beliefs he has inherited. In the paper under consideration, this results in an interesting dichotomy: Kugler sees the Phaethon ... . M. Lowery Most of the material in this article first appeared (in a slightly different form) under the title "F . X. Kugler - Almost a Catastrophist" in the second Newsletter of the Interdisdplinary Study Group (England), now the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies "Review". (See NOTICES, p. 102 ...
74. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? [Books]
... From: Catastrophism, Neocatastrophism and Evolution by Trevor Palmer CD Home | Contents CD-Rom Home Preface Chapter 1 The Context of Evolution: the Earth and its Surroundings Chapter 2 The Establishment of Gradualism Chapter 3 Challenges to Evolutionary Gradualism Chapter 4 Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? Chapter 5 The Erratic Descent of Man Chapter 6 Towards a New Evolutionary Synthesis Chapter ... the largest marine turtles" [2 : p. 137]. Nevertheless, Halstead, following in the tradition of Lyell and Geikie, tried to give the impression that catastrophist arguments were naive and driven by emotion, whereas gradualistic arguments were objective and had a firm scientific foundation: "The other brand of theory involves a careful consideration of ...
75. New Fashions in Catastrophism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Cosmic Heretics, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents PART THREE CHAPTER NINE New Fashions in Catastrophism Deg's Journal, November 24, 1967 Rereading carefully V. s Earth in Upheaval, I read the sections on the age of waterfalls this morning and, as I poured coffee beans into the coffee grinder just now I wondered ... was much to be learned from it that a student could otherwise obtain from no single source. It was controversial; the geologists dismissed not only its style but also its catastrophist ideas. V. s scheme to make headway among geologists by presenting a "clean" book, without assistance from legend or astronomy, failed. Yet, today ...
76. The Quantavolutionary Scan [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of the earth and man has been in the skies. Second, the latest period of time, roughly the holocene period, say 14,000 years, has witnessed catastrophes. Third, the great changes of recent times have created modern humans. In sum, nature and mankind have been recently catastrophized and transformed by forces of exoterrestrial origin ... Science is full of controversies. It thrives upon dispute. Catastrophists are far fewer than uniformitarians, but they are, if anything, more disputacious, both amongst themselves and with others. Those who interpret natural history by the "sudden leap" of quantavolution or catastrophe may not accept even one, much less all three of the aforesaid principles ...
77. Quantalism: The Big Picture [Journals] [Aeon]
... , was the catastrophist paradigm, based on the assumption that ancient disruptions of a previously long-established order had transformed all aspects of human life on earth. Before proceeding to put catastrophism itself in perspective, let us briefly face a problem that no discussion of Velikovsky's thought can long avoid; and this is the fact that Velikovsky himself is widely regarded ... , he developed an overarching perspective on the various disciplines in which he was unavoidably involved. This perspective, which transcended the topical viewpoints of the disciplines themselves, was the catastrophist paradigm, based on the assumption that ancient disruptions of a previously long-established order had transformed all aspects of human life on earth. Before proceeding to put catastrophism itself in ...
78. Solar System Studies [Journals] [Aeon]
... as we find it. The latter school gained the day and their premises came to be widely taught. A corollary result was a loss of interest in biblical descriptions of catastrophes and a general disregard for tales of other ancient cultures regarding active planetary gods. In 1950, with publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. things began to change ... And did some of these catastrophes involve erratic planets in an unstable Solar System? While many facets of the paleogeologic record of Earth must be restudied in the light of new catastrophist research, a quick review of other Solar System bodies and subsystems is also of interest. Our purpose in this review is not to answer the mysteries of the Solar ...
79. Quantalism: the Big Picture [Articles]
... , was the catastrophist paradigm, based on the assumption that ancient disruptions of a previously long-established order had transformed all aspects of human life on earth. Before proceeding to put catastrophism itself in perspective, let us briefly face a problem that no discussion of Velikovsky's thought can long avoid; and this is the fact that Velikovsky himself is widely regarded ... , he developed an overarching perspective on the various disciplines in which he was unavoidably involved. This perspective, which transcended the topical viewpoints of the disciplines themselves, was the catastrophist paradigm, based on the assumption that ancient disruptions of a previously long-established order had transformed all aspects of human life on earth. Before proceeding to put catastrophism itself in ...
80. Society for Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1996:1 Home | Issue Contents Society for Interdisciplinary Studies a registered charity (Charities Act, 1960) - registration number 286264. About Chronology & Catastrophism Review The SIS was founded in 1974 in response to a growing interest in the works of modern catastrophists, notably the highly controversial Dr Immanuel Velikovsky ... In his books Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos he argued that the ancient myths and sources such as the Bible contained records of planetary catastrophes in the Earth's history and, based on this, he suggested that geology, cosmology and ancient history should be reconsidered. In cosmology he proposed that electricity played a much larger ...
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