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80 pages of results. 211. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream [Journals] [Kronos]
... ideas taken from the journal Pensée. What we shall find is that they are astonishingly similar, almost as if Shakespeare had had a copy of Worlds in Collision at his elbow when he composed the play or at least Pensée' s summary of it. What will be argued is that, if the predicament Titania describes is consistent with the cosmology of Worlds in Collision , the fairy world and the earthlings it affects are symbols for the planets and our globe. Here is Titania's speech. And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, Or in the beachèd margent ...
212. Thoth Vol I, No. 27: December 10, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... by Robert Dunlap SPECULATIONS ON MAR'S SPIN RATE.................Wal Thornhill SPECULATIONS ON POLAR CONFIGURATION.....Wal Thornhill- Quote of the day: Is it likely that any astonishing new developments are lying in wait for us? Is it possible that the cosmology of 500 years hence will extend as far beyond our present beliefs as our cosmology goes beyond that of Newton? Fred Hoyle, _The Nature of the Universe_- VELIKOVSKY'S COMET VENUS (10) By David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) [EDITOR'S NOTE: This continues Talbott's series of articles on the myth of the ...
213. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... views, and quickly assimilate and simplify the technical content for the reader. The drawback is that he may not appreciate how a person new to the subject will react to it. I have no quarrel with McIlmoyle's review of the plasma theory chapters. However the early part of the book contains a marvellous sweep through the history of astronomy and cosmology, explaining the roles of the key players in the cosmological arena. These include the early Egyptian priests, Anaxagoras, Plato, Pythagoras, Ptolemy, Diocletian, Augustine, Severus of Antioch, the Muslim liberators (i .e . the Arabs), Ibn al-Haytham (what nationality did you think he was, Mr. McIlmoyle? ...
214. SIS Silver Jubilee Conference: Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Wallace Thornhill: The Electric Universe "In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." Galileo Galilei A few professionals, like the astronomer Halton Arp, are challenging the accepted Big Bang model of the universe. His latest book, Seeing Red, is a war-cry against Big Bang cosmology. He writes in the preface to his book, "This, then, is the crisis for the reasonable members of the profession. With so many alternative, contradictory theories, many of them fitting the evidence very badly, abandoning the accepted theory is a frightening step into chaos. At this point, I believe we must look ...
215. On Dragons and Red Dwarves [Journals] [Aeon]
... required to elucidate the spectacular events at the heart of this intriguing mythical theme. Here we merely attempt to analyze several intriguing motives hitherto overlooked. The Dragon and Creation In order to properly interpret the myth of the dragon-combat it is necessary at the outset of our investigation to place it in its proper mythological context. That the dragon-combat has a cosmological import has been recognized since the pioneering researches of Gunkel, who documented that it typically had reference to tumultuous events associated with the Creation. (1 ) This opinion is readily confirmed by numerous passages in the Old Testament which allude to Yahweh's primeval conquest of the dragon, the latter appearing under one of several different names: Yam, ...
216. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... his critical review of Clube & Napier's The Cosmic Winter, concluded that they had a promising theory' but proffered the advice that they should ditch virtually all their mythological-historical material in favour of the corpus of much more persuasive evidence in Worlds in Collision. ' I should like to explore the possibilities of this idea - a new synthesis of the cosmology of Clube and Napier with the mythology of Velikovsky - but before I do so let us see what other alternatives remain for the committed follower of Velikovsky. 1. Postulate there having been different conditions in the Solar System which have enabled the circularisation of orbits (especially that of Venus), e.g ., as in the ...
217. Dark Matter [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... dark matter to cosmic strings as inflation papering over the yawning crevices in their theory. (1 ) Nothing so disturbs or infuriates the astronomical community as the concept proposed by Velikovsky, that gravity may not be the only fundamental force governing celestial motion. When Velikovsky proposed this, he asserted a belief that the foundation stone of all astronomical and cosmological thought was in error and brought upon himself unending rage and furor. Velikovsky had questioned that which had always been assumed to be beyond question and settled for all time. Harlow Shapley, nurtured in the Newtonian tradition, expressed his disgust and anger sarcastically because Velikovsky was, apparently, genuinely sorry that I and the likes of me had ...
218. The Intellectual Context of Velikovsky's Thought [Articles]
... the harmony. Plato was very careful not to argue that God had created the earth, which he felt was somewhat less than perfect. In the Timaeus he has God creating the heavens and then getting rather bored with the job and turning it over to the demons or demigods. Therefore there was a split in Greek thought and in Greek cosmology, between this world, which is full of corruption (perfectly acceptable to having a catastrophe or two), and the heavens, which did not change; they were there for eternity. The stars went around in perfect circles, the circle itself being a symbol for eternity. It has no beginning and no end and nothing therefore ...
219. Thoth Vol I, No. 23: August 17, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... .................Wal Thornhill "WHAT CANNOT BE SAID IN SCIENCE," From the journal Nature, with comments by Wal Thornhill- Quote of the day: The original emergence of life and consciousness in the universe is.... attributed to chance in modern cosmology. When scholastic theology encountered inexplicable elements of reality, it frequently deemed them mysteries. When science encounters such elements, it now tends to regard them as random chance events. B. Alan Wallace, "Choosing Reality"- * ANNOUNCEMENTS * ANNOUNCEMENTS * ANNOUNCEMENTS *- ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP: 30-DAY FREE TRIAL A vigorous list-serve is sponsored ...
220. The Organization of the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... orbital periods. This word is as close as any in ancient Hebrew to the general idea of gravity, which is also pulling or drawing, with force to shorten or lengthen timing involving a planet. If a grave mistake has been made by fiat creationists (that of failing to look to the Book of Job, the earliest, for cosmology), so also has a collage of major errors been made by the nebular hypothesis proponents with respect to both the Sun and the planets. We shall describe nine fundamental problems or weaknesses. If discrediting faulty ideas such as those found in the nebular hypothesis is one side of our coin, the negative side, then creating an alternative ...
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