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76 pages of results. 151. The Great Debate [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... the fossil records, "blank intervals" during which the slow evolutionary process could be observed. He then asserted that although the fossil record was incomplete it nevertheless revealed many examples of organismic variation and modification in the past. Fossils, he concluded, are evidence that the forms of life have changed throughout history and that some species have become extinct while others have survived. Of course, no sensible person would question Darwin's conclusion; the controversy arises over his contention that the main or only agent responsible for evolutionary process is natural selection. Darwin wrote The Origin of Species primarily to put to rest the doctrine of catastrophism. He fully expected the biggest objections to his book to come ...
152. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... rotation, which could be accounted for if it had a moon, but astronomers were baffled because they could not find one. This is no longer a problem because they have invented a new class of celestial object to fit the bill, possibly the darkest body in the solar system .. . it must be more like a gigantic, extinct comet than a planetary body. ' And Velikovsky is dismissed for wild speculation! ELECTROMAGNETISM Sun Surface Jets (New Scientist, 31.7 .04, p. 14) Acoustic vibrations are popular with astronomers to explain wave patterns on the surface of the Sun, but the periodicity of these match that of massive jets of material which ...
153. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the last Ice Age, the archipelago of St. Kilda off the West Coast of Scotland was one large, mountainous island. South Eastern Alaska was supposed to be under ice at this time but remains in a cave indicate that plants and animals were still thriving there. Another cave in Belize, Central America, contains the bones of an extinct bear, 10,000 years old, which indicate that the area was drier and less tropical than thought to be at the end of the Ice Age. On the other hand, around 20,000 years ago tropical South America was supposed to have been very dry but analysis of sediments from Lake Titicaca indicates that it was in ...
154. Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... * Cometary magnetism * Lineaments Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters Earth in upheaval * The end of the ice age * Climate evidence * Volcanoes * Geomagnetic reversals * Mountain building * Mammoth bones C14 * When was the moon last molten? * Dust * Thermoluminescence tests * Dust again * Craters on earth * Global flooding * Gaunal extinctions * C14 dating the extinctions * Art and drawings of extinct animals * Uniformitarian causes * Alaska and Canada * Siberia * Ipiutak * The bronze age in Siberia * Lakes of the Great Basin * La Brea tar pit * Florida * Agate spring quarry, Nebraska * Elephants * South America * Arctic muck * Whales * Archaeology * The Columbia ...
155. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... has been lost in the last 11,000 years and one scientist predicts that it will be gone within another 5000 years. The northernmost surviving ice shelf lost a huge chunk last summer. CATASTROPHE Back to the supernova New Scientist 4.4 .98, p. 20, Scientific American Aug. 98, p. 14 The Permian extinction was one of the Earth's greatest catastrophes. Dating and analysis of rocks now shows that the extinctions took place in less than one million years, far too quickly to have been caused by moving continents as one explanation would have it. Another geologist claims to have found debris in rocks of the period which appear to have come from an ...
156. Earth In Upheaval. File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... . The deserts of Arabia, Sahara, and Gobi were covered by forests and pastures, and man's neolithic relics and rock drawings show how recently these wastes were richly watered and were inhabited. The remains of whales are found on mountains; fig trees and corals are found in polar regions, and signs of ice in Equatorial Africa. Widespread extinctions in America occurred "virtually within the last few thousand years."(2 ) I gave the history of the theory of catastrophism versus the theory of gradualism and evolution. The Agassiz theory of the ice ages was originally also a catastrophist theory. Agassiz spoke of the sudden arrival of the ice cover seizing the mammoths in Siberia. ...
157. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... out simply because they become out of date' and are replaced by their more efficient competitors over long periods of time, is not an adequate explanation. There is increasing evidence that major physical changes have caused more large-scale evolutionary changes than has competition." It is undisputed that many times in the history of the world there have been major extinction events and now the traditional "competitive" explanations "have been questioned by a closer study of the fossil record". It is suggested that the alternative explanation of random extinctions and survivals "is probably applicable to many major replacements" (see also Workshop 3:4 , pp. 18-19). Although random extinctions are seen to ...
158. Palaeontology and Evolution [Books]
... first vertebrate animals (with backbones) are found only in the Devonian system. The first amphibia appear during the Carboniferous. Ammonites (a kind of Molluscs.) are not found before the Permian. The first dinosaurs and flying creatures appear during the Trigs. Some species utterly disappeared. For example, the end of the Cretaceous saw the extinction of all kinds of dinosaurs and ammonites. The woolly elephant (mammoth) utterly disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene. The examination of the world of fossils (incompletely summarized above in an over-simplified manner), coupled with biological studies, gave birth to different theories about the evolution of life. Without going into details, it may ...
159. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . One may be a staunch supporter of the control of population- believing with reason that overpopulation is itself a kind of catastrophe- and, too, one may dread, with all reason again, a nuclear war. It is nevertheless of some consolation to consider that the reproducibility of the species amounts to an ultimate mechanism of escape from extinction in chaos and war. A woman of fifteen can reproduce. Thereupon, the arithmetic of survival is simple : a surviving couple can generate a population of billions in a thousand years, under conservative theoretical assumptions. So effective is this challenge of life to the principle of entropy that one must credit somewhere in the dim past an evolutionary ...
160. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , they were ashamed of what they had done. Are we going to do the same again? One expression of Clube's sticks in my mind: the fear that we recognise as religion'. He spoke of the difference in outlook between US and UK astronomers: Americans worry about asteroids, British about cometary interaction. Robert Dunlap: Mass Extinctions'. Dunlap makes documentaries. He had a dream that Earth was struck by a large object and started reading about Velikovsky. He showed the first few minutes of his documentaries on the extinctions of dinosaurs. This was highly unsatisfactory because we got the lead-in but no development or conclusions. The films showed the correlation between impact craters and ...
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