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102 pages of results. 111. Velikovsky on the Formation of Coal [Journals] [Pensee]
... plant debris in bulk by floods, and the effect of subsequent phenomena upon the metamorphism of coal. It is therefore important to examine his views on this subject in some detail and to determine how far they are acceptable and relevant. Velikovsky makes the following points on the subject of coal formation:- 1) Many kinds of plants and trees found in coal do not grow in swamps and when they die on dry ground they decompose and disappear. 2) Assuming that 10 feet of plant remains forms one foot of peat and that a 12-foot deposit of peat is required to make a layer of coal one foot thick, then a 50-foot seam represents the continuous growth of forests ...
112. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... the necessity of providing for their daily wants, and they would give all their efforts to acquiring the law. On the whole, it would not have been advantageous to process at once to the Holy Land and take possession thereof, for when the Canaanites heard that the Israelites were making for Palestine, they burnt the crops, felled the trees, destroyed the buildings, and choked the water springs, all in order to render the land uninhabitable. Hereupon God spake, and said: "I did not promise their fathers to give a devastated land unto their see, but a land full of all good things. I will lead them about in the wilderness for forty years ...
113. The Atlantis Researches by Paul Dunbavin (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the 1978 SIS Glasgow Conference), Jurgen Spanuth, Alexander Thom, Peter Warlow (a speaker at an early and recent AGM and author published by the SIS and elsewhere) and various others. He is therefore in the mould of post-Velikovsky catastrophism – the idea of minor impact events at significant points in history (using ice core data, tree rings, and pollen analysis etc.) The grazing comet caused the Earth's orbit to tilt, Dunbavin suggests, and in doing so caused all manner of disasters around the globe. It seems to me that his ideas account for some very interesting geological phenomena, especially where there is global evidence of rising sea levels in some places and ...
114. The Radiocarbon Dating Method [Journals] [Pensee]
... atoms, but nevertheless, it is adequate for sensitive instruments and can be measured to somewhat better than I% accuracy. The law of radioactive decay is that a given fraction is always lost in a given time. The half life of radiocarbon, 5,730 years, is the time for 50% loss. Thus, after a tree has fallen, 5,730 years later it will have half of the radiocarbon content of a living tree. For any other ratio larger or smaller, the age is lesser or greater. If the content is one quarter of that living material, the age is twice 5,730 years. This continues until it reaches an unmeasurably ...
115. Should the European Oak Dendrochronologies be Re-examined? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . However, later linking of the Irish chronology to English oak chronologies altered the placement of the Irish oak chronology and forced a corresponding adjustment in the German oak chronologies and the recognition that the short overlap at 550 BC made the cross-match within the German oak dendrochronologies at that point dubious (Baillie, 1983). The theoretical basis for matching trees as far apart as Northern Ireland and Germany, particularly given the differences in the two climates and other factors, is non-existent. Pilcher et al. (1984) argued, however, that despite this problem, "the statistical significance and consistency of the cross-dating is sufficient to ensure that both chronologies are exactly synchronized." However, ...
116. Vox POPVLI [Journals] [Aeon]
... column would have taken on the appearance of a glow discharge tube. The dark striations would have suggested vertebrae, a ladder, or stairs. [3 ] When the electrical charges became more or less equal, the gases and dust would have been more stable and would have appeared more substantial, giving the impression of a pillar, a tree, or a tall tapered mountain. (Editor's note: Those interested in the electrical, magnetic, and plasmic properties of the Saturnian configuration might do well to study Wallace Thornhill's recently published Notebook- The Electrical Universe- available from Kronia Communications Inc., at 8350 S. W. Greenway #24, Beaverton, Oregon 97008, ...
117. Some Religious Themes in the Light of Velikovsky et alia [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ancients of Eden must have been monotheists. I maintain that both Judaism and Christianity were direct continuations of this cult. I also believe that all other major world religions are a protestantation of this ancient cult which was once the only universal religion. I base this conclusion on the similarities among the myths which are common to all faiths: the Tree of Life, the Rivers, the Supreme God, and the presence in many faiths of a Trinity. Trinity In the Christian faith we are told that God is three persons in one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This idea was supposedly introduced in New Testament times(2 ) and yet it is already present in other ...
118. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Everyone must now have heard about the effects of El Nino, but now it appears there is also a northern hemisphere equivalent, called the North Atlantic Oscillation. This could have contributed much to the recent warming trend and seems to be tied to long term oceanic current patterns. Such natural climate change was probably responsible for the loss of trees in the Highlands of Scotland between 4000 and 7000 years ago, long before human farming practices could have had an influence. Earthquake mechanics New Scientist 22.11.97, p. 21, 31.1 .98, p. 6, Science Frontiers No 116, Mar. -Apr. 98, p. 4 The ...
119. Punctuated Darwinism? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in cheetahs and gorillas, when the dominant male turned out to be sterile." But what do these facts mean for a consideration of the processes of evolution? Evolution by natural selection depends upon an ever increasing genetic variation, from which some variations are selected to become, gradually, new species. The result can be pictured as a tree, branching into more and more subdivisions. Yet if a stable population gradually loses its genetic variability by both the sexual reproduction process as stated above, and by the weeding out due to selection pressures to maintain the species' norm, which is what is actually witnessed in nature, then the inevitable conclusion is that, in fact, ...
120. Night of the Gods: Axis Myths [Books]
... , by Sabatin de Ursis in 1611 and Emmanuel Diaz in 1614, and by others later.15 Hirata too may have acquired at Nagasaki some further tincture of Western learning. Another case of creation by the spear is the achievement of Athens when she struck the ground and brought forth the Olive. Here we get the two axis-symbols of the tree and spear together; and the spear-axis not merely produces the Earth but the whole Universe, which the tree figures forth. And was not the aged stump of this fallen miracle shown in the temple of Erechtheus on the Acropolis of Athens,16 as the original of all the olive-trees in the world? There is yet another strange parallel ...
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