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76 pages of results. 271. Forum Part Two [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . It started during the early 1980s, when Louis Alvarez and his colleagues discovered anomalously high concentrations of iridium in the clay layer which marks the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K /T ) boundary. Since iridium is not found in these extreme concentrations in the Earth's crust it was linked to iridium-rich cosmic agents which, subsequently, were made responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. During the last decade mainstream scientists and the obedient public have gradually accepted the idea of global disasters caused by extra-terrestrial bodies. The most important factor for this paradigm shift, however, was the testability of this catastrophe hypothesis. If, as was claimed, a global disaster of cosmic origin had ever struck the Earth ...
272. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... DR KLOOSTERMAN AND THE AUTHOR. The history of the natural sciences is characterised by controversy. Conflicting theories and interpretations, based on the same set of facts, have been commonplace rather than the exception. Geology follows the same pattern of development, with controversies raging about continental drift, submarine canyons, the age of the Earth, and the extinction of species. The conflict between uniformitarianism and catastrophism that underlies many of these controversies is as old as geology itself. These two philosophies offer incompatible interpretations of the earth's past, present and future, It has been claimed (1 ) that originally all scientists, including geologists, were catastrophists. In the middle of the last century, ...
273. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... spoke of cata-clysmic floods and worldwide conflagrations, were essentially historical. (76) The planetary collision scenarios he saw behind Earth-involving battles of the gods (theomachies) are still being challenged and can be shown to contain a number of errors. Yet, in substance, his view of cosmic catastrophism not only gained in reputation for geological time (extinction of dinosaurs, etc.), (77) but was also backed for the Bronze Age, i.e . for the time of writing. In 1982, two British astronomers, Victor Clube (University of Oxford) and William Napier (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), published The Cosmic Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth ...
274. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... by Mr. Field, like that discussed by Warlow, is nowhere commensurate with the chaotic conditions during the event that he so vividly describes. This is a commonplace situation where the supposed evidence for a world-shattering catastrophe is a vague shadow of what would be expected and is capable of being readily explained by other less extravagant processes. The Pleistocene extinctions and climactic changes do not require an inversion and neither does the draining of Lakes Missoula and Bonneville. Regarding the extinctions of the mammoths and other mega-fauna, I withdraw my remarks in KRONOS VII:4 (1982), pp. 66-83, in favor of William White's rejoinder in the three issues of KRONOS XI (1985-6). ...
275. The Quantavolutionary Scan [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Corriere del Ticino) 13. A primitive "precursor" of the even-toed hooved animals (pigs) is now revealed to be of a different family (mouse deer), so another "missing link" is gone. (New Scientist). 14. Jurassic find in China exhibits an earlier line of mammals that may have evolved and extincted 30 million years earlier than accepted beginnings of present mammalia. (New Scientist). 15. The Eocene-Oligocene boundary is marked with extinctions, microtektites and high iridium levels of exoterrestrial event. (New Scientist). 16. Gravitational Constant may be changing, as applied to changing lunar orbit (Astrophy. J.) Is one more ...
276. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... are: Leonids 4 days Beta Taurids 10 days Zeta Perseids 15 days Arietids 20 days - suggesting that some of the relatively prolific showers mentioned above are rather older than the Beta Taurids. f). Many contrary theories are simply ignored. There is a vocal and long-running debate among the impact theorists and the volcanism theorists with regard to major extinctions, notably the terminal Cretaceous dinosaur extermination. Clube and Napier simply hijack the stronger points of each, and allow their impacts to cause the Deccan Traps volcanic episode associated with the extinction [84]. They should address the geological objections to this view [85]. The necessary hot plume in the mantle upwells, Courtillot reckons, ...
277. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Hackett: Historians' Fallacies (NY 1970) 556 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 Forbes, R.J .: "Extracting, Smelting, and Alloying," A History of Technology, Charles Singer, et al., eds., vol. I (London 1954) Friedrich, Johannes: Extinct Languages (NY 1957) Futuyma, Douglas: Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution (NY 1983) Gardiner, Alan: Egypt of the Pharaohs, (London 1961) Garland, H. and Bannister, C.O .: Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy (London 1927) Garland, H.: "Ancient Egyptian Tools, ...
278. A Review of Wells's Review of Sun, Moon, And Sothis [Journals] [Aeon]
... , in a manner simple enough that even Wells may understand it. Schaefer's original program in Sky & Telescope (September, 1985, page 262) has six inputs that must be supplied, but at least two of these, "the limiting stellar magnitude at the zenith...in a fully dark sky" and "the visual extinction (k ), or stellar magnitude lost by a beam of light passing vertically through the atmosphere," are simply not known for antiquity. Schaefer suggests that users of his program might wish to employ a photometer. But how are we supposed to apply a photometer to the ancient sky? Schaefer misses no opportunity to trash those from ...
279. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... prograde and inclined to the orbit of Venus, approaching from above the ecliptic plane. Terminal Eocene Event?sources: SCIENCE 221, pp.150-52; NEW SCIENTIST 4.8 .83, p.345 We have reported, in previous issues, the evidence suggesting a major catastrophe at the end of the Eocene period: the mass extinction of species of minute organisms, the fields of tektites, and the associated iridium anomaly (see WORKSHOP 3:1 , 3:3 , 4:2 , 5:1 and 5:3 ). Now this evidence is coming under fire. A team f rom the U.S . Geological Survey and Stanford University has ...
280. Part I: The Drift [Ragnarok] [Books]
... or furrows are found. The rock-surfaces have not been ground down and polished. " This is the more remarkable," says Mr Giekie seeing that the regions to the north, west, cast, and south all more or less deeply covered with drift deposits. 8And, in this region, as in Siberia, the remains of the extinct mammalia are found imbedded in the surface-wash, or in cracks or crevices of the limestone. If the Drift of North America was due to the ice-sheet, why is there no drift-deposit in " the drift-less region " of the North western states of America? Surely this region must have been as cold as Illinois, Ohio, etc. ...
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