Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

241. Chapter VII: The Earth [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]

... ; the proclaimed enemy of this theory proved to be its only ally. The real enemy of the theory of evolution is the teaching of uniformity, or the non-occurrence of any extra-ordinary events in the past This teaching, called by Darwin the mainstay of the theory of evolution, almost set the theory apart from reality". 23 The mass extinctions of well-adapted species about the end of the last ice age can be reasonably accounted for by catastrophism. Catastrophic events also provide an explanation for the ice ages themselves. And during the same events that caused the extinction of species, it is readily conceivable that conditions were right for the generation of new species. Professor Lewis M. Greenberg ...

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242. Nevermore. Ch.4 Poets And Visionaries (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]

... certain prescience in the poet, although a search in literature would show that astronomers of the time employed the very same arguments to alleviate fearful expectations at the approach of spectacular comets. This may rationally explain some of the elements of Poe's story, but not all of them. The anguish set forth by Poe impresses as a heritage of an extinct generation, or, better, of extinct generations- a trust unrecognised but real and troubling deep inside, under the muffling layer of the conscious mind, the scientist's as well as the layman's. With poetic clairvoyance, Poe temporarily peeled off the muffling strata, and the agony was all there, with its horror welling up and ebbing ...

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243. Cataclysmic Evolution. Ch.15 Cataclysmic Evolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]

... numerous earlier species of fish showed a more highly developed organism when compared with later species of fish can be explained by the destruction of earlier forms, not in the process of competition, but in upheavals against which superior structure is no defence. The observation that healthy species of animals, like mammoths, with no sign of degeneration suddenly became extinct greatly troubled the evolutionists. This fact is unexplainable by natural selection or the principle of competition; not so by the catastrophic intervention of nature. The fact that at several stages of the past many animals of various species and many species in toto were rather suddenly exterminated, in conflict with the idea of slow extinction in natural selection, ...

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244. The Caverns. Ch.14 Extinction (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]

... The Caverns. Ch.14 Extinction (Earth In Upheaval ) ...

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245. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]

... cannot resist pointing out that the reductionists' mission is complicated enormously by the necessity that not only organisms themselves be understood, but also environmental change. Environmental change entails vagaries of geological and even astronomical events whose origins are complex, obscure, and, as earthquake watchers know, currently unpredictable." He describes the major evolutionary effects of mass extinctions, without going into their possible environmental causes, and points out that it was evidence of the vast proliferation of mammalian species following the extinction of the dinosaurs which first convinced T. H. Huxley of the reality of evolution. Stanley's arguments, if not at the present time conclusive, are nevertheless quite convincing: the evidence about human ...

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246. Footprints. Ch.14 Extinction (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]

... Footprints. Ch.14 Extinction (Earth In Upheaval ) ...

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247. Fossils. Ch.14 Extinction (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]

... Fossils. Ch.14 Extinction (Earth In Upheaval ) ...

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248. Impact Geology (Review)ed [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]

... of continental, subcrustal, and mantle masses. One- or even a few- impactions would not be able to account for that. According to the author the impact took place in an already formed Atlantic Ocean some 11,400 years before the present. If it resulted in glacial melting and reforming it must have been accompanied by massive extinctions. And we have no clarification about the relationship of this event to any extinction. Since it is widely (and I believe correctly) held that the continents and deep oceans were formed, and seasonality of climate began, after the end of the Cretaceous (see J. Tuzo Wilson and also Furon, both in P.M ...

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249. Compendium [Journals] [Pensee]

... Eiseley refers to Velikovsky in the opening paragraph of his The Firmament of Time. These various remarks, placed in juxtaposition with Eiseley's comment in his more recent The Night Country, make a fascinating study: Loren Eiseley, as quoted in Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval (1955): Page 138- "The biologist is in despair as he surveys the extinction of so many species and genera in the closing Pleistocene [Ice Age]." (" The Fire-Drive and the Extinction of the Terminal Pleistocene Fauna," American Anthropologist, 48 [ 1946].) Page 205-". . . sudden and decisive geological or climatic changes occurred which simultaneously wiped out a considerable number of animal species ...

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250. Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]

... Fossils In Florida Lakes Of The Great Basin And The End Of The Ice Age Chapter 11 Klimasturz: Klimasturz Tree Rings Lake Dwellings Dropped Ocean Level The North Sea Chapter 12 The Ruins Of The East: Crete Troy The Ruins Of The East Times And Dates Chapter 13 Collapsing Schemes: Geology And Archaeology Collapsing Schemes In Early Ages Coal Chapter 14 Extinction: Fossils Footprints The Caverns Extinction Chapter 15 Cataclysmic Evolution: Catastrophism And Evolution The Geological Record And Changing Forms Of Life The Mechanism Of Evolution Mutations And New Species Cataclysmic Evolution Chapter 16 The End: The End Supplement: Worlds in Collision' in the Light of Recent Finds in Archaeology, Geology, and Astronomy. (An Address Before ...

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