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67 pages of results. 461. The Dragon in Myth and Folklore [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that the demolition work blowing an opening through the hillside for the new road to Foyers may have disturbed them and led to the dramatic sightings of 1934 that brought world fame. Similarly, the introduction of steamships would have repelled oceanic creatures from the kind of close contacts that had hitherto made serpent sightings on sailing ships (including reputable naval and biological investigation vessels) a common phenomenon. And the advance of urbanisation and then industrialisation would have polluted rivers, water sources, and off-shore waters around heavily inhabited areas, driving sea-worms (if that is what they are) to purer climes. The industrialised world was just left with the historical record. And, as had been the case ...
462. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... final model, the dogmatic, requires exposition. Professor Stecchini has given ample reason to believe that the resistance to the astronomical theories of Velikovsky was motivated by sheer ideology, a dislike of challenge to an orderly universe. Much evidence can be brought forward from other fields of knowledge - archaeology, biblical studies, paleontology, geology, physics and biology - to the same effect: the theories of Velikovsky operating against the prevailing dogma are repulsed vigorously. Every weapon is brought into play against the new ideas - authoritative denunciation, arguments ad hominem, tricks of logic and evidence, suppression, denial of rewards, and stony silence. By the rules of the dogmatic model, what happens ...
463. Untitled [Books]
... to try to shut the door. It is as if there were an unwritten, unspoken and indeed unconscious taboo against dealing with the possibility of catastrophism, and thus celestial instability, and Dr. Velikovsky, who had broken it, must be destroyed. That is why they are guardians of the skies. ' The astronomy and geology and biology which they had constructed was apparently true, but, being uniformitarian, it was only a partial truth, revealing enough to keep man happy, but concealing what man should not know. The implications go further, for, if we consider man in this light-striving to erect what appear to be perfectly rational intellectual disciplines, but ...
464. Chapter 13 Scythian Princes in the Royal Tombs of Ur [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ."112 Such a divergent set of opinions by experts as to the identification of these depictions of equides at Ur makes it quite clear that Cardona's absolute assurance that these "are shown to be onagers" cannot be sustained. There is a further reason for holding that these equides, shown pulling chariots, were not onagers, based on biology. Jared Diamond, in his recent bestseller, Gun Germs and Steel gives the reason. These Asian asses called onagers have never been domesticated except in the minds of historians and those that say they were. They are inherently incapable of being controlled to pull wagons or to be ridden: "Closely related to the North African ass [ ...
465. The Scientific Reception System [Books] [de Grazia books]
... final model, the dogmatic, requires exposition. Professor Stecchini has given ample reason to believe that the resistance to the astronomical theories of Velikovsky was motivated by sheer ideology, a dislike of challenge to an orderly universe. Much evidence can be brought forward from other fields of knowledge - archaeology, biblical studies, paleontology, geology, physics and biology - to the same effect: the theories of Velikovsky operating against the prevailing dogma are repulsed vigorously. Every weapon is brought into play against the new ideas - authoritative denunciation, arguments ad hominem, tricks of logic and evidence, suppression, denial of rewards, and stony silence. By the rules of the dogmatic model, what happens ...
466. Beneath Bauer [Books]
... 300-page book, spend no more than a dozen pages on all the rest of Darwin's writings put together, including the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, saying simply that "similarly compelling arguments are available to contradict" each of them, and derive the bulk of his assessment from the early article, which is unknown to most biologists and plays no role in their thinking. Despite the appalling inadequacy of such a method, Bauer would nevertheless feel (as he does about Velikovsky), that he had "worked through the record" and had "thought about the general issues involved" and that he therefore understood everything-"All that happened now seems explicable to me ...
467. The Origins of the Latin God Mars [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1993 (Vol XV) Home | Issue Contents The Origins of the Latin God Mars by Ev Cochrane Ev Cochrane is the editor and publisher of Aeon. Over the past 15 years he has been pursuing researches in the fields of archaeoastronomy, mythology and biological evolution and has contributed numerous articles to Aeon and Kronos. He is currently preparing a book titled The Many Faces of Venus. The history of classical scholarship reveals a handful of noteworthy attempts to explain the origins of the Latin god Mars. The first great study was that of W. Roscher, of Lexikon fame [1 ]. Roscher approached the subject from the vantage point of ...
468. Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... This would be of no interest here except for the fact that there are two kinds of carbon: the great majority of carbon in the air is "dead" carbon (C12) but there is a small proportion of radioactive carbon - C14 which, of course, is chemically exactly the same as C12 and takes the same part in biological processes. This carbon-14 - radioactive, unstable carbon - is formed in the upper atmosphere by the bombardment of cosmic rays. (Don't ask me about the atomic physics of this: all I know is that it happens.) Once created, it drifts down and mixes in with the other components of the air, maintaining (in ...
469. Water [Books] [de Grazia books]
... over half the globe at any given time. And there are groundwaters, more voluminous than those of the surface. The fresh waters amount in all to three percent of all waters, and three-fourths of the fresh waters are bound up in ice. The omnipresence of water in large amounts in all life forms grant it a large role in biological and atmospheric activities. Its employment and bulk make its lithospheric transactions important shapers of the Earth's surface. Where do the ocean waters come from? Since she sees the streams and puddles after a rain, a child reasons that all water comes from the sky, that is, unless a geologist gets to her quickly to tell her that ...
470. Why Pensee? [Journals] [Pensee]
... "You're treating me the same way they treated Velikovsky." It is easy to stereotype such persons and to dismiss unthinking their peculiar vision of the truth. The press of editorial duties often requires such dismissal, and no less an authority than Polanyi congratulates it: "Journals are bombarded with contributions offering fundamental discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology or medicine, most of which are nonsensical. Science cannot survive unless it can keep out such contributions and safeguard the basic soundness of its publications. This may lead to the neglect or even suppression of valuable contributions, but I think this risk is unavoidable." (Minerva, [Summer, 1967], p. 539) ...
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