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67 pages of results. 601. Ethics and the Supernatural [Books] [de Grazia books]
... all people share in an ecumenical morality. The logical and sociological impossibility of both demands will not deter him. He is implacable. He will not pluck his morals from a garbage heap. What can the scientist counsel? Try as they might, the anatomist and physiologist cannot separate a pig and a man far enough for comfort. The biologist, try as he may, cannot worship an arrangement derangeable by an unseen particle, and a lucky hit out of hundreds of millions of spermatozoa. Try if he would, the anthropologist could not work up an agitation over adulterous intercourse and let the commandment be written down by the hand of a god. Nor can the geologist see ...
602. A Catastrophic Reading of Western Cosmology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... differ, but the general picture is very much like Aristotle or the Scholastics or the vision in Revelation. One therefore has to wonder if he sought unconsciously to replace a discarded Christianity with something intellectually better but along the same lines, just as Darwin's theory of continuous evolution explicitly anticipates that humankind will get better and better until it is perfect biologically, to complement the technological perfection that science will achieve. If we always have to make ourselves believe that perfection is available in the physical universe and in ourselves (as the Triple Terror dictates), then in Newton and Darwin we may have simply made new scientific tries for the same old religious goals. Ideologically, there may really ...
603. Knowing the Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... idea already cited that the present fragmented universe of starry bodies was created by a primordial explosion, but that a limit of expansion will be reached, whereupon the universe will implode. Again it is often said that man will colonize space, etc. All such processes appear to be non-random, hence to some thinkers, purposeful. Take the biological "law" that evolution cannot reverse itself. If this is so, evolution appears to have some goal, which encourages certain theorists to feel better about the world and others to believe in gods. Materialists can take a different view: non-random processes develop an evermore specific direction out of inertia; once an ear begins to evolve in ...
604. Response to Critique by Leroy Ellenberger [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... sexagesimal system of mathematics. A better understanding of the various locations in ancient times of the Earth's spin poles. It is impossible to foresee the future value potential of such research. If verified, the results of such a computer simulation will enhance the advancement of scientific knowledge and historical perspective. The crippling effect of static uniformitarianism on astronomy, biology, and geology will be realized, and these disciplines will reach toward new roles both in academia and operational science. If successful, such a project should contribute to a dynamic society such as ours. By way of contrast, the kind of criticism proffered by Ellenberger tends to produce static thought and static society. It is ironic that ...
... material sound in relation to the various disciplines touched upon? How plausible is it, that this will in time come to be judged the work of a scholar and not that of a crank? I would seek the opinions of experts in the various fields. With Worlds in Collision, it would then turn out that not many astronomers, biologists, geologists, historians, or physicists would have kind words to say. However, when pressed, they would have to admit that- though they might disagree with methodology and regard the inferences drawn as doubtful- they could not readily and decisively disprove the views put forward by Velikovsky. It would be natural then to examine the prospective ...
606. Thoth Vol I, No. 20: August 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of myth, another reason not to take myth seriously. The question is not asked because the "Velikovskian" field of study lacks all credibility in the eyes of mainstream authorities. Thus the Mayan scholar Peter Joralemon explained the highly unnatural convergence of symbols on the celestial dragon- The primary concern of Olmec art is the representation of creatures that are biologically impossible. Such mythological beings exist in the mind of man, not in the world of nature. It's easy to see how one might draw this conclusion. But if the symbolism lacks any roots in "the world of nature" and is simply the result of chaotic imagination, then an even greater issue arises: Why do the ...
607. A Catastrophist Reading of Religious Systems [Journals] [SIS Review]
... you. (Is it not fascinating how complex our collective unconscious creations are, and how interesting, when religion contains a record of catastrophe in its narrative but a repudiation of catastrophism in its theology?) Essentially every religion is a survival quest, a desire to overcome the fears generated by our awareness of death, of the limitations of biological and perhaps even geological existence. Every religion appears to have this same fundamental goal, to lessen the believer's terror about the possible destruction of the individual or the created world. It is true that each religion does this in a slightly or largely different way, but I have tried to show that these apparent differences are irrelevant beside the ...
... particles under buffeting by surrounding molecules was first observed by a botanist, Robert Brown, in 1827. The explanation in terms of buffeting by molecules was arrived at during the last part of the nineteenth century, and a quantitative description of Brownian motion was given by Einstein in the early years of the twentieth century. Colloidal systems are common in biology- such large "macromolecules" as proteins, enzymes, and nucleic acids behave like colloidal particles. Emulsions are another common example of colloidal systems (for example, the water-based "plastic" paints). All textbooks of physical chemistry give explanations and examples of colloidal behavior. Substances in the colloidal state can be made to settle out ...
609. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... human plane, Atlantis on the plane of history, and so on). We may note that what predominates all these cosmicomythological lunar conceptions is the cyclical recurrence of what has been before, in a word, eternal return. Here we again find the motif of the repetition of an archetypal gesture, projected upon all planes- cosmic, biological, historical, human. But we also discover the cyclical structure of time, which is regenerated at each new "birth" on whatever plane.. Everything begins over again at its commencement every instant. The past is but a prefiguration of the future. No event is irreversible and no transformation is final. In a certain sense ...
610. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... surprisingly low reflectivity at 1-2%, similar to the darkest known material in the Solar System and described widely as being "like coal". Speculations generally tend toward the nucleus containing some form of organic compound, e.g . a tar. In April came the confirmation that infrared spectral analysis of the Halley coma declare the presence of biological molecules: Hamy Kroto of Sussex University is on record as believing that straightforward chemistry is all that is required to produce these, and that the results are not all that surprising after all! Forrest's Resources sources: STONEHENGE VIEWPOINT 67, pp.3-8; 68, pp.24-28; 69, pp.9-16; 70, pp ...
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