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114 pages of results. 551. Velikovsky: Hero or Heretic? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... said, "Sun, stand thou still". Much scientific indignation has been directed to these and other special elements of the theory. Sagan's criticisms The connection between the Biblical manna and the planet Venus caught the attention of a number of critics. A noted Harvard astronomer observed that manna did not fall on the Sabbath, according to the Bible. It would be hard to see why a planet or comet should observe the Sabbath. Carl Sagan of Cornell University took the point further. Assuming that the manna was distributed not only on the Sinai desert but over our entire planet and in the space around it, he calculated that the total manna produced during the 40-year sojourn of ...
552. Scientifically speaking... [Journals] [Pensee]
... cycle of seasons in roughly 32 years (365/11 1/4 ). Even if people might find some enjoyment in the novelty of New Year's celebrations progressing through all seasons, religious constraints reinforced other preferences for seasonal regularity- and forced adjustments of the lunar calendar. Add a month now and then, for instance. In the Hebrew Bible, specifically, the feast of the harvest of "the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field" is prescribed to fall "On the fifteenth day of this seventh month. . ." (Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:34). Harvest of first fruits locks in to the seasons; fixing ...
553. C&C Workshop 1993, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Heights, Stopsley LU2 8TR, Bedfordshire, UK. About Workshop The SIS was founded in 1974 in response to a growing interest in the works of modern catastrophists, notably the highly controversial Dr Immanuel Velikovsky. In his books Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos he argued that the ancient myths and sources such as the Bible contained records of planetary catastrophes in the Earth's history and, based on this, he suggested that geology, cosmology and ancient history should be reconsidered. In cosmology he proposed that electricity played a much larger role than in the orthodox scheme and that Venus in particular was a young planet. In ancient history, he proposed that the orthodox ...
554. C&C Workshop 1994, Number 1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Heights, Stopsley LU2 8TR, Bedfordshire, UK. About Workshop The SIS was founded in 1974 in response to a growing interest in the works of modern catastrophists, notably the highly controversial Dr Immanuel Velikovsky. In his books Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos he argued that the ancient myths and sources such as the Bible contained records of planetary catastrophes in the Earth's history and, based on this, he suggested that geology, cosmology and ancient history should be reconsidered. In cosmology he proposed that electricity played a much larger role than in the orthodox scheme and that Venus in particular was a young planet. In ancient history, he proposed that the orthodox ...
... accept- or at least to remain open- than to reject out of hand. How many "ordinary" people have the self-confidence to say, of someone who attracts great publicity (much of it favorable) and talks in learned technical language, "He is a fraud"? How many of us have the comfortable familiarity with the Bible, the related histories of the Middle East, the terminology of astronomy, to reject a man who presents a massively detailed discussion of those subjects, even though that man seems a bit queer, a bit egocentric, a little too selfimportant? We may not like him, but we will hardly dismiss him. So, in many ...
556. Oedipus and Akhnaton [Journals] [Pensee]
... the villainous Jehuti-Nakht, but virtue prevails so that the innocent and guilty get their just deserts. A Hebrew example is the Book of Daniel, where the villains calumniate the virtuous Daniel and his friends. But the latter's goodness triumphs and God slays the wicked but looks after his own. The Book of Esther is another example in the Hebrew Bible. This tradition is continued in the Apocrypha, as in the story of Susanna and the Elders. The optimism of the Hebrews inspired a hope which made it possible for man to go on; that is one of the main reasons why the Judeo-Christian tradition superseded the pagan Greek values which offered no alternative to despair in the face of ...
... [412]. None of these books caused nearly so much fuss as had Worlds in Collision. Reviews were again mixed, and frequent reference was made to that earlier book and the controversy it had generated. Ages in Chaos Velikovsky had actually written Ages in Chaos and Worlds in Collision concurrently. Both works stemmed from identifying accounts in the Bible and in the Papyrus Ipuwer as of the sanie set of actual events, a cosmic catastrophe during which the Exodus took place. Worlds in Collision describes the physical events on earth and in the heavens, whereas Ages in Chaos deals with the social and political histories. In the recorded history of Egypt as conventionally interpreted, Velikovsky says, ...
558. Catastrophism and Ancient History Newsletter [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... show the effect of catastrophic events on historical development. By catastrophic, I mean to say, either natural earthly upheavals or celestial disturbances. While some of our findings will understandably remain conjectural they are offered as theoretical explanations nonetheless. Another line of inquiry concerns the nature of the Biblical narrative and whether catastrophic events influenced the compiling of the Hebrew Bible. That is to say, was the Exodus from Egypt influenced by earthly or extra-terrestrial catastrophic agents? The newsletter welcomes unsolicited material within the parameters outlined above. The only criteria is that it be well written and typed. Publication will be determined solely on the basis of the merits of what you have to say and not who you ...
... "The first three printings were sold out before publication .. . and within a week of publication there were 55,000 copies in print . . [325]. In May the book "shot into first place among best sellers . . . among general non-fiction, [it] was being outsold by only one book- the Bible" [83]. A not inconsiderable number of people have accepted as valid much of Velikovsky's work. Worlds in Collision has been reprinted many times (some 72 times in English alone by 1974 [445]) and later books by Velikovsky have also enjoyed good sales in hardcover and paperback editions.(1 ) The American Behavioral ...
... the length of the day had changed appreciably. Velikovsky was wrong about the chemical constitution of comets, and wrong in drawing an analogy between the structure of the solar system and that of an atom. Contrary to Velikovsky, the planet Venus was known to Babylonian astronomers as early as the third millennium B.C . Velikovsky had misquoted the Bible, ascribed to Hesiod a passage from Ovid, and erred in characterizing scientists as "guarding the sacred Laws of Nature' against assault. .. . We welcome information that compels modification of the laws' we know; we spend our time trying to unearth such information. Nobody is more delighted than the man of science when discordant ...
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