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82 pages of results. 441. Sodom and Gomorrah [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Gomorrah: - "The day whereon God visited him (Abraham) was exceedingly hot, for He had bored a hole in hell, so that its heat might reach as far as the earth..." (7 ) It is presumed that the destruction of the cities would have been ascribed to a terrestrial upheaval such as an earthquake, or volcanic action, with no recourse being made to a celestial agent unless that was actually the case. What then was that agent, and what was the nature of the fire? Without citing his evidence, Velikovsky has suggested that Jupiter was once a much closer neighbour than it is at present. This was not a passive ...
442. Some Religious Themes in the Light of Velikovsky et alia [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... is interesting to note that Whitsun which celebrates the descent of the Holy Ghost has its counterpart in the Jewish faith (like all Christian festivals) in Pentecost: the giving of the decalogue during a Venus disaster. On that Whitsun, the Holy Ghost descended in fire as Ginzberg states: "His splendour passed through four portals of fire, earthquake, storm and hail.(6 ) The baptism service may imply that Venus was partly responsible for the Deluge. I must state at this point that I was far from enthusiastic about my own theory and I fully expected the next consideration to be the stumbling block. I had to identify the Messiah in the Trinity, and Jupiter ...
443. Velikovsky like theory of gravity and magnetism [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... etc. such forces might account for the sustained orientations of the planetary axes and their various departures from possible primordial orientations. Another application of the proposed theory might be the relevance of changes in magnetic measurements and nutation as a cycle among many including the yearly perihelion point on the Earth's orbit and monthly and daily moon and sun tidal cycles regarding earthquake prediction. ...
... , no scientist, physician, economist, or other expert would be qualified to give an answer. We have to answer on the basis of values and probabilities, not on the basis of facts. Another example of a trans-scientific question is the probability of such an extremely improbable event as a catastrophic accident involving a nuclear reactor, or an earthquake powerful enough to destroy the Hoover Dam (or, I would add, Velikovsky's scenario of cosmic events, whose probability several scientists attempted to calculate [289, 305, 385]). Weinberg points out that "probabilities of such events are sometimes calculated. . . . But the calculations are obviously suspect . . . because there ...
445. Our Tilted Earth by Gordon Williams [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... has not been ascertained by drilling and other evidence. Right or wrong, the booklet is instructive and interesting. It has an excellent title and cover diagram representing the tilted Earth. Williams is too modest to include his name on the cover or give any personal details other than his address. Williams has more papers in preparation on Earth's Greatest Earthquake and The World Mountain, involving even more unorthodox views about Saturn. It is hoped he can persuade a publisher to produce a book with the title Our Tilted Earth containing revisions and a combination of all these views. It would be well worth having. As I happen to know he is a Clive James lookalike, I'm sure his ...
... movements on impact, strikes our planet, the total energy transferred on collision will have to be divided between the following effects: (a ) Formation of a crater, including the ejection of the crushed material building up the rim. (b ) Elastic effects; fracture and splitting of the ground under and around the crater, production of earthquakes. (c ) Production of heat, which vaporizes part of, or the whole, of the striking body, melts rocks inside the crater, raises the temperature of the surrounding country and spreads an intense heat wave in the atmosphere. (d ) Shift of the Earth's. polar axis of rotation with simultaneous change in the planet's ...
447. Of Racial Memory. Ch.1 Of Racial Memory (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... by which no creature in the world, on land or in the sea, could conceivably have been unaffected. Thus the accumulation of the genetic mnemes comes down to every representative of the species in our days through every one of the genealogical lines: all ascendancy reaches back to the same generation that was exposed to the trauma. At approaching earthquakes, animals with fine sensoria flee, before seismographs even register any tremor. During forest fires, animals that normally live in terror of other animals will run together with their predators, struck by a greater terror, to cave shelters. It is quite obvious that some information- called instinct-is being reawakened and reactivated, with fear never absent ...
448. Plato. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... had grown up an extraordinary power under kings who ruled not only the whole island but many of the other islands and parts of the continent; and besides that, within the straits, they were lords of Libya so far as to Egypt, and of Europe to the borders of Tyrrhenia...Afterwards there was a time of inordinate earthquakes and floods; there came one terrible day and night, in which all your men of war were swallowed bodily by the earth, and the island Atlantis also sank beneath the sea and vanished. Hence to this day that outer ocean cannot be crossed or explored, the way being blocked by mud, just below the surface, left ...
449. The Pyramid Age [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... II and Dynasty 15 Apophis I and II has previously been noted by Tony Rees and others. However, inference does not constitute proof and scientific dating methods militate against extreme revisionism. In Catastrophism and Ancient History, IX:1 , Dorothea Kenny's treatment of Cuchulain is a fascinating contribution to the debate, as was Emmet Sweeney's earlier work, Earthquakes in the Early Irish Tradition', Workshop 1987:1 . Personally, I think Emmet needs to reevaluate his work in relation to the passage of time or otherwise concentrate on the Persian and Ptolemaic eras as the backbone of extreme revisionism. To date, no revisionist has formulated a viable reconstruction of chronology. The New Chronology', ...
450. A Skyscraper And A Sparrow. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... have their vestiges in the close oppositions of Mars that recur at fifteen-year periods. The similarity in the inclinations of the axes of Earth and Mars has meaning if magnetic fields played a role in these contacts. These were the astronomical arguments of Stewart and my replies. He also advanced three archaeological arguments. Pyramids must have been disturbed by strong earthquakes if there were catastrophes such as I described- but they were not; obelisks are still standing, though "even a moderate jerking of the ground would upset them on their narrow basis." He went on: There are many other ancient buildings and monuments surviving undamaged in cities which were flourishing before or during the same period- in Greece ...
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