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39 pages of results. 91. What is Uniformitarianism and how did it get here? [Journals] [Horus]
... From: Horus Vol. 1 No. 2 (Summer 1985) Home | Issue Contents What is Uniformitarianism and how did it get here?by Alex Marton When Charles Darwin published his now classic On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, he was riding the crest of a long wave of scientific speculation regarding the history of the earth and its inhabitants... I have called attention to the word scientific not to demean its value, but to highlight the fact that that was just one side of the on-going controversy about the Creation and the level of interest that the Almighty might have in the affairs of men. This last point was one ...
92. "Examine All The Evidence Yourself At First Hand". File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... galaxy of names. He spoke of Copernicus and Newton and told how Louis Agassiz had been called a "quack." But with the progress of science there remains hardly any room for great scientific revolutions such as took place in the past. "As a science grows up, the complete revolutionary overturns, like those effected by Copernicus and Darwin and Pasteur, become rarer and rarer." He told also of experiences of Freud and Einstein, as well as of Planck, whom he quotes as having said: "New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die." Sprague de Camp called Galileo ...
93. The Origin Of The Moon [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... requires that the Earth would have turned itself inside out during its early stages as a molten body. Based on the rapid rotation of a highly molten body, the Moon may have been flung off from the Earth as a molten blob of surface lava. This theory was put forth in England in 1879 by a mathematician, George H. Darwin, the son of the naturalist and famous evolutionist Charles Darwin. What George Darwin did was to calculate the gravitational attraction of the Sun as it acted on the liquid lava surface of the Earth. He concluded that, if the Earth rotated in about four hours, the Sun's attraction would raise huge tides on the Earth and that, ...
94. The Evolutionist-Creationist Battle: A Threat to Catastrophist Evolution (Focus) [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Reports in scientific periodicals such as New Scientist, Nature and Science, were unanimous in referring to the trial as just part of an on-going battle and indicated that, although the victory of "science" was inevitable, many were surprised at the force of Judge Overton's ruling. Nature pointed out that the battle is not about the validity of Darwinism per se or a war between religion and science, but "the underlying dispute is between a small section of the religious community in the United States to whom the evolutionary view of the world .. . is anathema". A tenet of the Creation Scientists is that. "The creation model is at least as scientific as the ...
95. James Hutton: A Non-inductive, Theological Catastrophist [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , and still is, presented and promoted as a Baconian ideal. What I submit is that Hutton, like Plato and Aristotle, derived his theory from a basic a priori assumption that was divorced from the clear evidence known to geologists of his own time. Professor Lynn E. Rose has summed up the nature of this assumption regarding Charles Darwin, who theorized that the "geological and paleontological record was really incomplete and compressed and abbreviated, so that what is continuous only appears discrete, and what is slow only appears fast, and what appears non-simultaneous only appears simultaneous." (3 ) Darwin had taken his assumptions from Charles Lyell, who had taken his assumptions from James ...
96. The Science of Evolution (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... protect evolution against the creationists: "During the Cambrian Period there suddenly appeared representatives of nearly all the major groups of animals (phyla) now recognized. It was as if a giant curtain had been lifted to reveal a world teeming with life in fantastic diversity. The Cambrian "curtain" has become the touchstone of the creation theory. Darwin was aware of the problem this created for evolutionists and it remains a problem today. Evolutionists keep hoping that new discoveries will eventually fill in the missing pieces of the fossil puzzle, but the chances of success may be less than those of finding the proverbial "needle in the haystack". The great revolution that separates the Proterozoic ( ...
97. The Doctrine Of Uniformity. Ch.3 Uniformity (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... process of importance from the beginning. This theory, first advanced by Hutton (1795) and Lamarck (1800), was elevated to its present position as a scientific law by Charles Lyell, a young attorney whose interest in geology was to make him the most influential person in that field, and by Lyell's disciple and friend, Charles Darwin. Darwin built his theory of evolution on Lyell's principle of uniformity. A modem exponent of the theory of evolution, H. F. Osborn, wrote: "Present continuity implies the improbability of past catastrophism and violence of change, either in the lifeless or in the living world; moreover, we seek to interpret the changes and ...
98. Kronos Vol. VII, No. 4 Summer 1982: Contents [Journals] [Kronos]
... . 4 Summer 1982 Texts Home | Kronos Home KRONOS A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis Vol. VII, No. 4 Summer 1982 Evolution, Extinction, and Catastrophism TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 How to Defuse a Feud Norman Macbeth 5 Editorial Postscript C. Leroy Ellenberger 8 Alternatives in Science: The Secular Creationism of Heribert Nilsson Bennison Gray 26 Ever Since Darwin: A Review Peter J. James 33 Darwin's Unfalsifiable Theory Tom Bethell 38 On Velikovsky and Darwin Lynn E. Rose 40 Beyond the Mountains of Darkness. The Search for the Ten Lost Tribes Immanuel Velikovsky 48 On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors Ilse Fuhr SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT - Catastrophism and the Mammoths 62 Forum White, Ellenberger, Cardona ...
99. Forget Amnesia [Journals] [Aeon]
... science won. Science is the voice of authority, leaving only a limited turf where religion pontificates. In this struggle, however, science, too, suffered casualties, or at least truth has. Uniformitarianism is an icon of science because, in the grand campaign against religion, uniformitarian postulates undermined Biblical creationism. In the final round, Darwinism dealt religion a coup de grace that banished unscientific Biblical miracles from rational discourse. Darwinism emerged from the fray as the grand champion, though continually in need of patchwork to accommodate new discoveries. The scientific community reacted to Velikovsky's work as it would to any priestly invasion of its turf. Velikovsky claimed his theory was beyond religion. Preening ...
100. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries." [2 ] Even though I am, by nature, skeptical of most skeptics, I found myself agreeing with Shermer more often than not. Here, I suspect, we both recognize the basic truth in Mencken's classic observation: ...
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