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39 pages of results. 21. Catastrophism And Evolution. Ch.15 Cataclysmic Evolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... printed work, Vestiges of Creation -written by Robert Chambers- caused a stir that did not subside for years. It was bitterly attacked by every British scientist for teaching that human beings are "the children of apes and the breeders of monsters," in the words of one critic, the president of the Geological Society, Adam Sedgwick. Darwin later acknowledged that the brunt of the attack against his own theory was absorbed by Vestiges. What was new in Darwin's teaching was not the principle of evolution in general but the explanation of its mechanism by natural selection. This was an adaptation to biology of the Malthusian theory about population growing more quickly than the means of existence. Darwin ...
22. How To Defuse A Feud [Journals] [Kronos]
... usually imply that creationism is nonsense and that its advocates are dim of wit. The creationists resent this. Protracted lawsuits along these lines were recently concluded in California and Arkansas. Several more are in the offing, with Louisiana probably coming up first. These suits are generally framed as disputes over evolution, but the real bone of contention is Darwinism, the purported explanation of evolution as the result of natural selection. If evolution alone were involved, the controversy would lose much of its present scope and virulence. One party would assert that the world was formed somehow (nobody knows just how); that this happened a very long time ago (nobody knows just when); ...
23. Whimsical Aspects of Scientific Theory [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... biological literature. The bulk of this concerned plants and animals, but a good deal of it dealt with theory, with the proper formulation of and attitude toward theory. I found some strange and puzzling things that one would never have expected among sober scientists. Here are some of the most striking. 1. Best-in-field is good enough. Darwinism has had to compete with various rival theories, the most famous of which are vitalism, creationism, Lamarckism, and the hopeful-monster suggestion of Goldschmidt. The Darwinians have shown that none of these theories are any good. A trained evolutionist can shoot them down with ease. Thus the Darwinians are able to say that Darwin made a better ...
24. Challenges to Evolutionary Gradualism [Books]
... work by geologists such as Edward Chao, Robert Dietz and Eugene Shoemaker, that, in general, explosion craters and crypto-explosion structures had an impact origin [2 ,8 ,9 ]. Meanwhile, palaeontologists had continued to dig, without finding much positive evidence of gradual transitions. However, trapped by the association which had been established between Darwinism and gradualism, and Thomas Huxley's decision not to challenge this association, echoing instead Darwin's (and Lyell's) views about the imperfections of the fossil record, palaeontologists could have been excused for becoming dispirited, feeling that their work was being largely ignored by the rest of the scientific community. Indeed, they contributed little to evolutionary theory for ...
25. The Establishment of Gradualism [Books]
... implying any prior conscious or sub-conscious thought [13,14,21]. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire also criticised the ideas of Lamarck, but more constructively than Cuvier, arguing that significant developments in response to environmental changes were more likely to take place in animal embryos rather than adult animals [14]. Two years after Lamarck's death, Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) set sail on H.M .S . Beagle as gentleman-naturalist, with the emphasis initially on the gentleman: in other words he was there mainly as a companion to Captain Fitzroy for the round-the-world trip. The professional naturalist on the Beagle was the ship's doctor, Robert McKormick, but he was `invalided' home ...
26. Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton (Book review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol 4 No 2 (1998) Home | Issue Contents Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 1997, 308 pages (originally published as Facts of Life, Corgi Books, London, 1993) Reviewer: Roger W. Wescott Milton's book is one of several that have been published in recent years challenging Darwinist evolutionism without advocating religious creationism. Among these are Darwin Retried by Norman Macbeth (1971), The Great Evolution Mystery by Gordon Rattray-Taylor (1983), Evolution: A Theory in Crisis by Michael Denton 1985), and Beyond Natural Selection by Robert Wesson (1991). Milton, indeed, ...
27. Resurrecting Genesis: Displacing the Failed Theory of Naturalistic Evolution, by John R. Hadd (Book Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2005 (Sep 2005) Home | Issue Contents Resurrecting Genesis: Displacing the Failed Theory of Naturalistic Evolution, by John R. Hadd Dorrance, 2002. Reviewed by David Salkeld Hadd's is an interesting and learned challenge to orthodox Darwinism without surrendering to fundamentalist creationism. ' (Walker Percy, quoted on the cover). It is a fair comment. However, a section headed Two Goals' in chapter 1 says: The first objective of this review is a revamping of [US] public school treatment of the subject of origins and Earth's record of life'. Ten lines later we find: The second goal is to revamp public ...
28. Henry H. Bauer and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... all the way to quite wrong. As a result the layman is virtually bound to be misled. Consider the following . . . . [written by Velikovsky] (Emphasis added) " '. . . mutations . . . a process of spontaneous changes in living nature fundamentally different from the process of evolution . . . postulated by Darwin' [Bauer continues] . . . . Darwin did not concern himself with genetic mutations because knowledge of genetics came much later than Darwin. But modern biologists see mutations as providing the variability (or some of it) upon which Darwin's natural selection acts to produce evolution. Mutation and natural selection go hand in hand in biological science ...
29. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... science, as readers of this journal know only too well, has its own special problems. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the field of evolutionary studies, which links geneticists and systematists on one side with palaeontologists on the other. The relationship has never been an easy one, and indeed started off on the wrong foot. Charles Darwin, having become convinced of the facts of evolution and of natural selection as a plausible mechanism, then decided for various complex reasons, but unnecessarily, to link his ideas with a gradualistic model. In the final chapter of On the Origin of Species [1 ] he wrote, "As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, ...
30. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... to a third or less of what had been assumed to be the proper figure. "I do not assert that Dr. Emiliani was correct. I only want to show that geological and biological projections into the past (like most extrapolations) have a precarious base and that a shift in chronology would shake the foundations on which Lyell and Darwin constructed their theories." 6 Thus, it is seen that the absolute dating of past events can give diverse results. Climate evidence Another example of climate changes that appears to be in accord with Velikovsky's claim that the climate changed twice once drastically 3,500 years ago and a second less drastic change 2,800 years ago-is seen ...
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