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76 pages of results. 191. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Leading opponents of the impact theory have been quick to claim that, as the Earth's orientation to the Sun was similar in the Cretaceous to that at present, these dinosaurs must have been capable of surviving at least two months' annual darkness. William Clemens of Berkeley (see WORKSHOP 6:2 , p.30) claims that extinction due to the darkness and cold caused by the dust of an impact event is therefore highly unlikely. NEW SCIENTIST printed a letter by A. N. Beale of Leeds on 26.9 .85, p.80 pointing out the unsatisfactory nature of dating methods (Clemens had dated a volcanic ash sample as younger than 65 Myrs ...
192. Shameless Promotion of Pet Paradigms [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... switch to a new way of seeing is needed: not just a new paradigm for certain disciplines, but an interdisciplinary unifying paradigm. Like the "gestalt switch", where you see a duck in the lines you previously saw as a rabbit, a paradigm shift changes perception. But this time the requisite switch will result in the mass extinction of the big conceptual populations of the present universe and a re-population with entirely new species. For example, the domain of validity of the familiar universal gravitation (F =GMmr-2) has shrunk to the confines of the solar system. Stars in the Milky Way more nearly obey F=GMmr-1. And with the discovery of intrinsic redshifts ...
193. Quantalism: the Big Picture [Articles]
... of global extent, none of these disruptions have occurred since the appearance of human beings. Caenocatastrophism is the theory that global disruptions have occurred within the memory of mankind. Palaeocatastrophism, though long out of favor, has made an undeniable come-back in recent years as a consequence of the Alvarez theory that a late Cretaceous asteroid strike brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs and related fauna . Caenocatastrophism, however, has yet to regain the acceptability that it enjoyed in the 18th century. To the temporal distinction between palaeocatastrophism and caenocatastrophism, I would like to add an etiological distinction between endocatastrophism and exocatastrophism. Endocatastrophism is the theory, set forth by Brendan Stannard , that global disruptions-at least those ...
194. Quantalism: The Big Picture [Journals] [Aeon]
... of global extent, none of these disruptions have occurred since the appearance of human beings. Caenocatastrophism is the theory that global disruptions have occurred within the memory of mankind. Palaeocatastrophism, though long out of favor, has made an undeniable come-back in recent years as a consequence of the Alvarez theory that a late Cretaceous asteroid strike brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs and related fauna. [4 ] Caenocatastrophism, however, has yet to regain the acceptability that it enjoyed in the 18th century. To the temporal distinction between palaeocatastrophism and caenocatastrophism, I would like to add an etiological distinction between endocatastrophism and exocatastrophism. Endocatastrophism is the theory, set forth by Brendan Stannard, [5 ...
195. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... diameter impact crater in China. The crater at Duolun, on the border of Hei province and Inner Mongolia, was previously not known to science - so one wonders just how many more there are. It is similar in size and features to Manicouagan crater in Quebec, and dates from 136 Myrs ago, which is the Jurassic/Cretaceous extinction boundary. No high concentrations of the rare earth metals (iridium etc) have been found at/near such large craters, so if they were present they must have been vaporised at impact. Double Dawn Explained source: New Scientist 15.1 .87, p.21 "Scientists in the US have explained a bizarre reference ...
196. The Dawnseekers: the First History of American Paleontology by Robert West Howard [Journals] [Kronos]
... investigations and resulting interpretations. It is thus refreshing to note two recent books which present the development of geopaleontology and the discovery of dinosaurs: Robert West Howard's The Dawnseekers (1975) and Adrian J. Desmond's The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (1976). Today, naturalists must reconsider the old explanation of dinosaurs and the previous reasons given for their eventual extinction. The present view of things is best understood within the historical perspective. Among the Presocratics, Xenophanes recognized both the historical and biological significance of fossils, i.e . he held that they are the remains of once-living organisms preserved in rock strata. Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Empedocles also supported evolutionary concepts.(1 ...
197. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... species has appeared in the course of recorded history. The most that one might expect to find in the way of biota in a wholly uniformitarian world is an astronomically large population of microorganisms of a single species. PREHISTORY AND CATASTROPHISM Since the time of Georges Cuvier, paleontologists have agreed that most of the organic taxa of the past are now extinct. Familiar examples of such extinct taxa are trilobite arthropods, seed-fern plants and oreopithecian apes. The only extinctions known during the historical period are of species whose demise was brought about, directly or indirectly, by human agency. Familiar examples of man's non-human victims are the passenger pigeon, the Irish elk and the dodo. To a catastrophist ...
198. Natural Evolution And Revolution. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... This statement needs qualification. It is true that the great names in science of the time like Louis Agassiz, the ichthyologist, the botanist Asa Gray and others expressed upon reflection great reservations at Darwin's views, yet they did so without disrespect and purely on scientific grounds. Agassiz pointed out that the skeletal remains of a number of ancient and extinct species of fish documented a better progression on the road of evolution and a better adaptation in the struggle for existence than do later species of fish, and thus the principle of the survival of the fittest had not been followed through. But the academic chorus in Darwin's support was heard ever louder, and soon the spectacle in the intellectual ...
199. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... p. 24 What happened to the flora of the Amazon during the ice ages? One researcher says that pollen records indicate that tropical plants migrated into the lowlands and only just managed to survive. However, another thinks that sediment patterns show that rivers flowed inland into a large lake, which would have covered much of the area. Mastodon extinction theory source: New Scientist 27.1 .90, p. 33 Half the mastodon bones found in the Great Lakes area of North America show signs of butchery, a fact which gave rise to the theory that the large mammals became extinct as a result of over-hunting by ancient man. The piles of mastodon bones have been re-examined ...
200. On the Pendulum Experiment (Vox Popvli) [Journals] [Kronos]
... mammoths were well adapted to extreme cold.(5 ) Cited for support were the mammoths' 9 cm thick layer of fat and double thickness of fur, the same reasons that Farrand asserted three times in his article. After additional arguments, Wm. White concluded that " . . . no catastrophic event need be invoked to explain the extinction of the mammoth . . ." , thereby mimicking Farrand's: "The death of the giants can be explained as a hazard of tundra life without evoking catastrophic events." When Fate's editor, Curtis Fuller, reported William White's remarks, John White rebutted with the lead letter in the next issue.(6 ) He emphasized that ...
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