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76 pages of results. 81. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to the current popular theory of the demise of the dinosaurs following a massive impact off Yucatan. They say the theory achieved prominence not only because of its exciting appeal but also because its originator, Luis Alvarez, was a Nobel prize winning physicist with tremendous scientific clout. MacClean and Officer believe massive volcanism is a more likely cause of the extinction. Alvarez threatened to wreck MacClean's career and orchestrated a campaign to discredit him. Details are no doubt in Officer's book (see Bookshelf). PHYSICS Einstein again The Times 17.2 .96, Scientific American June 1996, pp. 66-72, New Scientist 31.8 .96, pp. 28-31 and Science Frontiers 103, ...
82. The Continuing Evolution of Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , 1993); Complexity by R. Lewin (Dent, London, 1993) All who were members of SIS in 1994 should have received as part of their entitlement for that year a copy of my Catastrophism, Neocatastrophism and Evolution. This chronicled how it became scientifically respectable during the 1980s to argue that at least one of the mass extinction episodes evident from the fossil record, that at the end of the Cretaceous Period, could have owed much to the impact of an asteroid or a comet at that time. Even though many scholars still remained resistant to the idea, a catastrophist mechanism had thus become a feature of the mainstream debate about evolution. The views of previous ...
83. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... deep-sea sediments or ice sheet measurements. However, they end up with so many statistical rhythms' to play with they could just about prove anything, but they conclude that the Milankovitch theory, as currently formulated, does not account for the timing of several major climatic events from 100,000 to 300,000 years ago. Volcanic Mass Extinctions source: New Scientist 10.12.88, p. 23 Geologists who prefer massive volcanic events to impact events as a cause of mass extinctions have so far been unable to explain the evidence of shocked' quartz crystals at some extinction horizons. Now two researchers from Florida have a new volcanic theory which could explain the signs others ...
84. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... platform in Orkney as at Cromarty is strewn thick with remains which exhibit unequivocally the marks of sudden death. The figures are contorted, curved; the tail in many instances is bent around the head; the spines stick out; the fins are spread to the full, as in fish that die in convulsions. The Pterichthys [( an extinct fishlike animal with winglike projections and with the anterior of the body encased in bony plates)] shows its arms extended at their stiffest angle, as if prepared for an enemy. The attitude of all ichthyolites [any fossil fish] on this platform are attitudes of fear, anger and pain. The remains, too, appear to ...
85. Perilous Planet Earth [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... : The Story of its Decline and Fall .. . and Resurrection: Section A. From prehistory to 1899: Catastrophism dominates for centuries, but then gives way to gradualism: 1. Mythology, religion and catastrophism; 2. Hutton: fact and fiction about the origins of modern gradualism; 3. Cuvier and Lamarck: choosing between extinction and evolution; 4. Natural theology and Noah's Flood: the high-water mark of catastrophism; 5. Catastrophism, uniformitarianism and idealist philosophy; 6. Lyell triumphant: gradualism dominates geology; 7. Darwin and evolution; 8. After the Origin: the triumph of evolutionary gradualism; Section B: From 1900 to 1979: Gradualism reigns ...
86. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... stable states for any given set of conditions, e.g . with a particular concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere Earth may be stable with or without an ice cap. As the CO2 level gradually changes it could reach a point at which it flips into the other state. These catastrophic' climatic changes could explain many of the major extinction events. However, it still leaves the field open for an extra-terrestrial impact for the Cretaceous/Tertiary event as there was no major climatic change at that time. The face on Mars sources: New Scientist 7.7 .88, p. 39; idem 25.8 .88, p. 62 A scientist in Boston ...
87. Catastrophism And Evolution. Ch.15 Cataclysmic Evolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood. For of man, and the works of his hands, we have not yet found a single trace among the remnants of a former world entombed in these deposits."3 So where were the remains of the sinful population? Cuvier taught that man's remains were never found with those of extinct animals. Lyell also declared in the first edition of his Principles that man was created after all the extinct animals passed away; and not until 1858, a year before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, did the finds in the Brixham cave shatter this belief in the non-coexistence of man and extinct, or "antediluvian," ...
88. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... who sees present measurements of the field as evidence of an exponential decay compatible only with a catastrophic origin within the last few thousand years (SISR II:2 , 1977, 42 - 46, with response by John Milsom, and II:4 1978, 110-111). Recently, geomagnetic reversals have been connected with such phenomena as faunal extinctions, ice ages, geological change, falls of tektites, vulcanism and even cultural discontinuities. (For interpretations of the simultaneity of some of these phenomena attributing the events to enhanced radiation, which might be considered in conjunction with a zero-state geomagnetic field, see papers by Schindewolf, Salop, Aspden and Kloosterman in Catastrophist Geology 2 No. ...
... CD Home | Contents Part Three: Volcanic Powers And Limitations II - Volcanoes and their Eruption VOLCANOES are usually divided into three categories: active, those bursting forth into eruption more or less frequently, such as Etna; dormant, those active in historic times, but long quiescent, like Monte Nuovo in the Phiegrean Fields of Italy; and extinct, those which have shown no activity over a prolonged period and yield no sign of functioning, like the volcanoes of South Wales, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. Yet it is difficult to be sure of any classification. Mount Popocatepeti, Mexico, for example, in February 1925 burst suddenly into eruption after having lain dormant for ...
90. Gases, Poisons and Food [Books] [de Grazia books]
... atmosphere by the repulsion of its surroundings, but driven down to Earth's surface by decrease in the repulsion, until ultimately a "soft explosion extinguished the oxygen available to human and replaced it by methane, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or these together. We turn next to the famous case of the mammoths, not waiting for the chapter on extinction [6 ]. One almost should say the "deathless" case, for it has endured the whole battle between catastrophists and uniformitarians, two hundred years - except that now it may even become the case of the "deathless" mammoth, for a late news report tells us that certain Russian experimenters are seeking to unfreeze and clone ...
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