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67 pages of results. 561. Some Comments on "Still Facing Many Problems" (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... stated by Newton). Comets are frozen balls of ice which melt when near the Sun (first stated by Kepler). All other "accepted" theories of Astronomy such as the Venus Greenhouse Effect, and scores of others, as well as theories in Geology (e .g ., plate tectonics), Archaeology, and Evolutionary Biology have been developed to conform with these axioms. Literally all data from space probes are interpreted by NASA scientists to support the axioms. The popular science magazines and newspapers force-feed the public with scientific hype, constantly referring to these axioms. Using the axioms, a great many predictions have been made about the expected state of the cosmos. ...
... out that Jeremy Rifkin in Algeny, pp. 149-150 stated that scientists have long assumed that life developed in an oxygen free atmosphere. That is, young terrestrial planets would possess little or no oxygen. This is precisely the case for Venus, and it again indicates Venus is a young planet based on scientific historical considerations. In fact, biologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois, having become critical of the pre-biotic soup paradigm for the origin of life on Earth, has developed a proposal that life may have begun in an environment like that of Venus; more specifically, life could have originated in the clouds. Woese's "An Alternative to the Oparin View of the Primeval ...
... account of the Noahic flood." How accurate is this statement? Velikovsky has employed the Bible and folklore and legends of ancient people to show that ancient man witnessed global catastrophes. His approach is similar to that of Georges Cuvier, the founder and father of the science of paleontology-the study of fossils. Stephen Jay Gould, the well-known Harvard biologist and historian of science says this about Cuvier's method of employing the Bible and folklore and legends of ancient people to prove that there was a universal flood in ancient times. "Cuvier's methodology may have been naive, but one can only admire his trust in nature and his zeal for building a world by direct and patient observation, rather ...
564. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Age. Many small-brained, and some, literally, brainless organisms also survivor it and are now thriving. Another unsolved puzzle is incest prohibition, observable in the form of incest-avoidance, in both wild and captive chimpanzees as well as in historical and contemporary humanity. Neither instinct alone nor institutionalization alone accounts for it. Nor does the threat of biological degeneration, since this is far from assured, in either theory or practice. One of the greatest prehistoric puzzles for naturalistically-minded, modern intellectuals is supernaturalism. Neanderthalers seem to have believed in discarnate souls- ghosts of both men and animals. And most of their successors, at least since Neolithic times, seem also to have believed in gods ...
565. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Grazia, 1966 In 1950, a book called Worlds in Collision, by Dr Immanuel Velikovsky, gave rise to a controversy in scientific and intellectual circles about scientific theories and the sociology of science. Dr Velikovsky's historical and cosmological concepts, bolstered by his acknowledged scholarship, constituted a formidable assault on certain established theories of astronomy, geology and historical biology, and on the heroes of those sciences. Newton, himself, and Darwin were being challenged, and indeed the general orthodoxy of an ordered universe. The substance of Velikovsky's ideas is briefly presented in the first chapter of this book. What must be called the scientific establishment rose in arms, not only against the new Velikovsky theories ...
566. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Grazia, 1966 In 1950, a book called Worlds in Collision, by Dr Immanuel Velikovsky, gave rise to a controversy in scientific and intellectual circles about scientific theories and the sociology of science. Dr Velikovsky's historical and cosmological concepts, bolstered by his acknowledged scholarship, constituted a formidable assault on certain established theories of astronomy, geology and historical biology, and on the heroes of those sciences. Newton, himself, and Darwin were being challenged, and indeed the general orthodoxy of an ordered universe. The substance of Velikovsky's ideas is briefly presented in the first chapter of this book. What must be called the scientific establishment rose in arms, not only against the new Velikovsky theories ...
567. Early Historic Man -- Catastrophism and Calendars [Articles]
... very few years since this structure has been identified, and this is an impact crater. There are two rings- nowadays, there are even impact craters with three or four rings. It's a beautiful crater, 14 km diameter. In Bombarded Earth you will read not only that catastrophism has occurred by the impacts, but there were also biological effects which were the result of radiation- radium and other lethal radiations which were injected into the atmosphere and which killed quite a number of living species. This shows the electric fields around the new volcano of Surtsey, off Iceland, which was born in the last ten years, even less. All that electrical activity creates nuclear reactions ...
568. On The Symposium Trail [Journals] [Pensee]
... then retrocalculations can be hopelessly wrong. "Calculating where a planet was three millennia ago is no more valid than calculating where an artificial satellite was three decades ago" --not even launched. Despite this fact, "modern historiography concerning the ancient world has been constructed on a framework of astronomical calculation." And not only history, but also biology, geology, and other disciplines. They have "passively accepted the thesis that the astronomers can tell them what has been going on on this Earth, and they have then sketched in those details permitted by the astronomers' general outline." To quarrel with this monarchical structure means telling the established leaders in at least a score of ...
569. Manna as a Confection [Journals] [SIS Review]
... discovery that some zeolites catalyse the desired polymerisation reaction, even if not exactly in a wonder-working manner (12). Acidic salts of barium and magnesium have also been cited as catalysts (13) and these offer a possible link with the preceding synthesis of sugars. Such catalysts could be regarded as the inorganic counterparts of the enzymes which control biological reactions, photosynthesis being known to be at least very largely enzyme dominated. Almost all known enzymes are inactivated and even destroyed at temperatures well below 100 C, thus requiring that enzymic and fermentation type reactions be substituted by something else if production of essential foodstuffs is to be maintained despite an environment which is hostile to life. It is ...
570. Comets -- the Cause of Historic and Prehistoric Catastrophes [Articles]
... do with the initial blast wave that circulates round the Earth. You probably have read enough of this and I've certainly talked of it, I recall, last time to the Society, I wouldn't wish to enlarge upon this now. Suffice it to say that there is plenty of evidence in the terrestrial record, the geological record, the biological record to tell us that we have suffered these episodes of bombardment from Apollos that come from the comets that we observe. I want to go past that and talk a little more about things that have happened more recently because they are more relevant to our subject today. Not all of these comets just turn into Apollos in a very ...
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