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67 pages of results. 531. Venus and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... destruction of towns to be referred to below. There occurred "a major westward shift in the Euphrates system of channels as a whole during Kassite times" (Paterson) (of this age, we believe). A set of natural disasters plunged the Harappan culture of India into a fatal decline now too. 4. Biosphere: Unusual biological behavior occasioned by habitat disturbance and environmental stress is evidenced. The behavior of animals during the Plagues of Egypt is well known and not to be dismissed as a myth: it is typical of well-observed disaster behavior (Galanopoulos and Bacon, p192-9; Lane). In the Black Sea, a large belt of coccoliths at the bottom returns ...
532. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... of symbolic origins, enabling us to see the language concretely as an archetypal celestial form finding progressive elaborations in myth and symbol. The three-fold power of the goddess meant three radiating streams of Venus' Glory. One goddess, one planet or star, with three emanations or rays. Despite all of the att-empts to find a connection with human biology, or with lunar cycles, or with some other numerological principle, nothing more than this single idea is required in order to comprehend the theme in all of its vari-ations. From her study of these symbols, Walker concluded that "the three-way design of the triangle and its many relatives usually represented the female principle," i. ...
533. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... The pinching of the discharge channel confines the excavation to a parallel-sided gouge in the Earth that afterward fills with water. A few thousand years later, a geologist comes along with a strip of geologic record that stretches those few abrupt minutes into gradual millions of years. If modern theories of astronomy and geology are vulnerable to chromatographic suspicion, can biology be far behind? Speciation and extinction events color large areas on the paper of evolution. If they began as catastrophic ink blots, the chromatographic properties of natural selection would slowly but surely bleed those colorful moments into pastel millennia. A bit of color has been restored to moments of extinction with proposals of impacts from asteroids and comets. ...
534. On Schools Of Thought [Journals] [SIS Review]
... had once been published showing that the normal gestation periods of a number of large mammals, measured in days, was an integral multiple of [Pi]. The evidence on which this suggestion was based was ample and the agreement was good, but it was accepted and published by Nature only as a joke. As Polanyi argued, the biologists conception of the nature of things makes such a relationship absurd and evidence could not convince us otherwise. Polanyi's argument was that we should always accept the judgement of the experts - their opinion, though not always correct in hindsight, provides the best available criterion at any time of the worthiness of an idea. There is some plausibility in ...
535. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC (probably over a century later on the New Chronology' [see Editorial note]. My thanks to Clark Whelton for the reference; the article is available at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=566685. Bas van Geel, a biologist, has deduced from various movements of people around the world, such as abandonment of farms due to flooding in Holland and the emergence of the Scythians as a major force on the Eurasian steppes (which had become less arid), that there was a change to wetter, cooler climates in mid-latitudes and that this was likely due to ...
536. Velikovsky on the Formation of Coal [Journals] [Pensee]
... of coal has been reconsidered in the light of the evidence available in the technical literature. The review of this literature has been made retrospective and extensive in an endeavour to ascertain how far modern work takes into consideration past experience and, particularly, to ascertain whether the modern trend follows a set pattern based upon the orthodox teaching of geology, biology and chemistry, which sometimes ignores evidence that cannot easily be reconciled with theory, or whether the modern outlook is sufficiently flexible to amend classical doctrines when these are not in accord with facts. The result of this search has been to confirm the views expressed by some scientists that alternative hypotheses can explain many of the phenomena associated with the ...
537. Krupp And Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... , particularly with the detection of short-lived magnetic field reversals: "During such (short-lived geomagnetic) events the virtual geomagnetic pole undergoes excursions outside the usual range of secular variation but they are usually brief, generally lasting about 10^5 yrs so that their magnetic record in deep sea sediments is often lost because of depositional demagnetism and because of biological activity in the upper few decimeters of the sediments."(10) "Short events are only recorded occasionally in stratigraphical sequences, for example, during periods of rapid sedimentation or if the record is continuous or samples are very closely spaced. If the chronology is not very exact even these occasional records cannot usually be reliably correlated making ...
538. New Proofs of God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the shocking modern revelation of the numberless stars and vast extent of the universe has been converted into constructive thought regarding the possibility of there being other intelligent beings in the universe, with whom we might possibly communicate. Inevitably the thought has been elaborated into contentions that at some time in the past, astronauts have settled upon our planet, assimilating biologically with lesser breeds, or constituting the human race itself. The thought has also moved, theoretically, to the contention that more intelligent or hostile or flagrantly incompatible beings might be confronted, to our embarrassment, should we be successful in communicating with exoterrestrials. These discussions employ formulas not essentially different from what we employ here. We take ...
539. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Alasdair's presentation was neatly rounded off by Eric Cooley auctioning off, for Society funds, a replica Piri Re'is map he had purchased in Istanbul. After a short break, Trevor Palmer led us through the history of ideas on human evolution, showing that, just as astronomers are beginning to take a more catastrophic approach to their subject, so biologists are beginning to forsake gradualism in favour of erratic processes. The main problem with deciphering human evolution has been the extreme paucity of specimens which enabled protagonists of various schemes to fit the specimens to their theories rather than the other way around. Starting with Darwin, the earliest ideas were naturally of a gradual evolution by natural selection of humans ...
540. Facts and Values: An Interdisciplinary Perspective [Journals] [Kronos]
... , as well as in the structure of human motivation, values are usually encountered and experienced in clusters, in more or less harmonious blends or in mixtures and combinations full of conflict. Like the fact-side, again, the value-side of concepts and phenomena occurs in all spheres of nature and culture and can be classified as physical, chemical, biological, psychological, logical, mathematical, economic, technical, lingual, aesthetic, ethical, moral, religious, political, legal, and so on. Each of these divisions can, of course, be further sub-divided. Various ends call for various means, various fields for various methods. Consequently, no particular division of the realm ...
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