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39 pages of results. 291. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Augustine, Severus of Antioch, the Muslim liberators (i .e . the Arabs), Ibn al-Haytham (what nationality did you think he was, Mr. McIlmoyle?), Bacon, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, Copernicus, Thomas Digges, Giordiano Bruno,Tycho Brahe, Joseph Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Laplace, Darwin, Descartes, Edgar Allen Poe, Boltzmann, Einstein and even the fiction and non-fiction of Fred Hoyle. For anyone wanting a quick run through about these world movers and shakers', this is compelling stuff. As well as outlining their contributions to science and the cosmological debate, Lerner draws out very well the problems which revisionists in ...
292. The Celestial Whirlpool Lake [Books]
... intelligent thinkers and observers among the early agriculturists who measured the year and introduced the Calendar which is still in use all over the world, We are therefore not dealing with Mr. Andrew Lang's " savages ", but with men quite as intelligent and perhaps much more observant than the great majority of modern men. Some were the Newtons and Darwins of their time. Note: 1 De Groot. The Religious System of China, Book I, Part III, pp. 93fi The constellation of the "Great Bear" (Ura Major), known widely in America as "The Dipper", has a significant connexion with the seasons. In China it is called the " ...
293. Pleiongaea: A Myth for all Seasons [Journals] [Aeon]
... have a tendency to reinvent the wheel, no real consensus came out of this one, save a jockeying for position. There are perhaps four major hypotheses that attempt to explain the presence of our lunar neighbor: Fission, capture, condensation, and impact. The fission hypothesis was championed, if not initiated, in 1898 by George Howard Darwin- second son of the illustrious Charles- who diverged from his father's approach to gradualism by proposing a catastrophic origin for the Moon. In George Darwin's scenario a swiftly rotating proto-Earth became unstable, developed a bulge, and then split into unequal masses. A variation on this hypothesis was forwarded in 1969 by Raymond A. Lyttleton of Cambridge ...
294. Venus -- A Youthful Planet [Journals] [Kronos]
... was published in the April, 1967 issue of the Yale Scientific Magazine . It is reprinted here with a marked timeliness. - LMG] The nebular hypothesis of the origin of the planetary family (Swedenborg, Kant, Laplace), also in its modern form (Weiszacker), complies with the uniformitarian principle of Hutton, Lyell, and Darwin. On the other hand, the tidal hypothesis in its original version (a tidal disruption of the sun by a passing star- Moulton, Chamberlain, Jeans, Jeffreys) and in its variant (the collision of the passing star with one member of a binary star system of which the sun is a surviving member- Lyttleton, ...
295. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... : Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth (An objective study of Creationism, Evolution and Catastrophism by James E. Strickling, Jr. Published by Vantage Press, 1986 This book is an attempt to mount a critique of modern evolutionary theory and of the Creationist explanation of the past. The author does this by first outlining a number of criticisms of Darwinism, many of which have been used by Creationists. He then takes the Creationists to task by questioning their interpretations or reading of the parts of Genesis on which certain of their arguments are based. Having shown that both these viewpoints are faulty, he attempts to outline an alternative. After giving a brief account of Velikovskian catastrophism, the ...
296. New Fashions in Catastrophism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... with new evidence from biostratigraphy. Although he advanced catastrophic evidence into prehistorical and even historical times, he hardly advanced the theory and methodology of time determination. He did not attack the long-time conventional view of Earth history. The best work on short-time geology or microchronism was done by Melvin Cook. V. rejected continental drift and his arguments against Darwinism were those well-elaborated by creationists and scientists of "saltationist" persuasion long before. Nonetheless, the work has solid merits; Harry H. Hess knew it well; he could find no falsehood or factual errors in it, only a theory which he could not accept or announce ex cathedra; and he recommended the book to his students ...
297. Controversy: Catastrophism and Evolution, The Ongoing Debate, by Trevor Palmer (Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Controversy: Catastrophism and Evolution, The Ongoing Debate by Trevor Palmer (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-306-45751-2, £55) Reviewed by Richard Huggett The aim of this book is to show how recent geological discoveries have shaken the tenets of neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory. The neo-Darwinian synthesis, which combines genetics with traditional Darwinism, sees evolution as a serenely slow, little-by-little process of natural selection. To neo-Darwinians, the results of natural selection - new forms - are imperceptible over short periods and display progressive characteristics that arise not from a preordained plan of linear development but from the chance interaction of competing forms. Palmer claims that two geological discoveries have invalidated this ...
298. Quantalism And Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... these is catastrophism, which needs no definition for Velikovskians or for Clubeans. SALTATIONISM The second is saltationism, a term and concept originated by Thomas Henry Huxley. Today, Huxley is remembered by many readers primarily as "Darwin's bulldog," the articulate spokesman for evolutionists in their debates with anti-evolutionary writers and lecturers. Yet Huxley differed from Charles Darwin and from Darwin's geological mentor, Charles Lyell, both of whom were uniformitarians (uniformists, for short). The aspect of uniformism that Huxley did not accept was gradualism, the doctrine that crucial events in the history of Earth and its inhabitants, such as the appearance of new species, occurred so slowly as to be unobservable while ...
299. Thales: The First Astronomer [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... taken account of the whole paradigm shift which has assembled us here, and which seems to be accelerating dramatically in the last few years of the 20th century. This is no longer a shift from uniformitarianism to catastrophism; uniformitarianism has been dead since asteroids were allowed to be the agents that killed off the dinosaurs, and punctuated equilibrium displaced crude Darwinism. It is rather what I have called (at the last Portland conference) a shift from palaeo-catastrophism-global catastrophes happened only before humans were around-to ceno-catastrophism-global catastrophes have occurred within human memory, and are indeed inseparable from the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens. The first of the three obstacles to calling Thales the first astronomer has to do with the ...
300. The Celestial Whirlpool Lake [Books]
... intelligent thinkers and observers among the early agriculturists who measured the year and introduced the Calendar which is still in use all over the world, We are therefore not dealing with Mr. Andrew Lang's " savages ", but with men quite as intelligent and perhaps much more observant than the great majority of modern men. Some were the Newtons and Darwins of their time. Note: 1 De Groot. The Religious System of China, Book I, Part III, pp. 93fi The constellation of the "Great Bear" (Ura Major), known widely in America as "The Dipper", has a significant connexion with the seasons. In China it is called the " ...
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