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76 pages of results. 121. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Arabian river New Scientist 3.4 .93, p.7 Remote sensing images of Arabia have revealed that beneath the sands of one of the driest regions of the Earth lie the remains of a vast river, which used to be up to 5 miles wide between 5,000 and 11,000 years ago. CATASTROPHES Yet another extinction Scientific American, December 1992, pp. 20-21 A sixth mass extinction has been announced. This is the oldest yet, just after the start of the Cambrian period when the earliest forms of life had just got going. Amber explained New Scientist 6.2 .93, pp. 31-34 Apparently scientists used to assume that the massive ...
122. The Mechanism Of Evolution. Ch.15 Cataclysmic Evolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... the formation of new species" (Darwin). As shown on previous pages, the annihilation of many individuals and of entire species in the animal kingdom took place, not only under circumstances of competition, but under catastrophic conditions as well. Entire species with no sign of degeneration suddenly came to their end in paroxysms of nature. Yet extinction of a species through starvation or extermination by enemies also takes place: Moa, the gigantic flightless bird of New Zealand that stood twelve feet high, was destroyed several centuries ago. The whooping cranes of North America were reduced by 1953 to twenty-one individuals. Natural selection cannot account for the wholesale destruction of many genera and species at one ...
123. The Signature of Catastrophe (Reinterpreting the Geological Record) [Journals] [Aeon]
... These frequently mark drastic changes in lithology (rock type) or fossil content; i. e., a pronounced physical break. Boundaries are now determined by fossil content, fixed at gradational intervals. In addition to apparent grading, fossils are used as boundary indicators when new ones appear that never occur in lower strata, or disappear (extinction), never occurring in higher strata. Frequently, however, the level of a natural boundary in one area differs from that in another area. The assignment of such problematical strata to one system or another is arbitrary. Controversies continue and can sometimes be resolved only by international agreement. We now look to several examples of "boundary ...
124. The Environment And Preservation Of The Mammoth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... that this is in fact correct. According to the various uniformitarian advocates of the overkill and climate hypotheses, the end came to these arctic giants 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Other catastrophists such as Hapgood, Hoyle, etc., offer cataclysmic causes for the demise of these animals, but also claim that they became extinct similarly about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Since it has already been demonstrated above that the mammoths did not and could not have lived in the arctic during the lce Age, then they could not have died off therefor any reason uniformitarian or catastrophic at its conclusion. But now to address the fact that the extinction ...
125. Opening the Floodgates [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... uncontroversial and not particularly enlightening. But Lyell held a complex view of uniformity that mixed the consensus about method with a radical claim about substance - the actual workings of the empirical world. Lyell argued that all past events - yes, every single one - could be explained by the action of causes now in operation. No old causes are extinct; no new ones have been introduced. Moreover, past causes have always operated - yes, always - at about the same rate and intensity as they do today. No secular increases or decreases through time. No ancient periods of pristine vigor or slow cranking up. The earth, in short, has always worked (and looked ...
126. Epilogue [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , after an epic quantavolution, continuation of the same processes, greatly altered, lunar fission has to be believed. Yet theoretical logic - call it speculation - has a large role to play, not the least in calculating whether the biosphere would survive. A review of all that has been written on this subject allows an affirmative. The extinction of a species is difficult; the extinction of tens of thousands of species is more difficult; the extinction of nearly all species requires the total explosion of the globe. Exponential reproduction over a few years can hide the most drastic reductions of population by fire, flood, thrusting, explosion, fall-out, radiation, de-oxygenating, and dephotosynthesizing ...
127. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1986 No 1 (Jul 1986) Home | Issue Contents Monitor Another Living Fossil'source: INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE 27.3 .86 Remember the coelacanth? The coelacanth was thought to have become extinct 60 million years ago, and there the matter would have rested but for the discovery of living specimens of the creature, indistinguishable from its ancestors, in the deep sea of the Indian Ocean. The coelacanth was dubbed "the living fossil", but in private the scientific community recognised that it was far from being an unique phenomenon: many species appeared to be unchanged by very, very long periods in the fossil record. Now ...
... parcel of it." But how is it that Wells brings in as metaphor a shower of meteors and a portentous comet in the sky? Is not the simile here more than a simile? In all his doomsday oration. Wells not even once put suspicion on man and man's action. Nature changed its flow and life is sentenced to extinction. "The reality glares coldly and harshly upon any of those who can wrench their minds from the comforting delusions of normalcy to face the unsparing question that has overwhelmed the writer. They discover a frightful queerness has come into life. Even quite unobservant people now are betraying, by fits and starts, a certain wonder, a shrinking ...
129. Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages by Trevor Palmer. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of Schaeffer. The chapter concludes with a description of how the ideas of Clube and Napier in astronomy and Heinsohn, James, Rohl and Sweeney in ancient history displaced the original theories of Velikovsky even among most of his erstwhile supporters. Chapter 13 treats the proposals about Atlantis in a similar way. The old catastrophists had always argued that mass extinctions and sudden shifts in stratigraphy implied that not all change could be benign and gentle. But how sudden was sudden? 100,000 years ago was nothing to a gradualist, but an immense length of time to a catastrophist. New ideas of supernova and the impacts of comets became popular again as more and more craters were found on ...
130. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Scientist 22.1 .94,p . 9, Scientific American December 1993,p . 18 The Amazon's equivalent of the Yeti is Mapinguari, many reports of which originate from the Brazilian rainforest. A researcher in Brazil now suggests that these sightings are real and that the creature is a giant ground sloth, previously believed to have become extinct between 11,000 and 8,500 years ago. Fossil remains of at least 8 genera of ground sloths, some of which reached the size of elephants, have been found in Brazil and details fit descriptions of Mapinguari. However, more extreme descriptions, such as it being one-eyed, having a mouth in its belly and devouring ...
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