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328 pages of results. 191. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , Minillas Station, Santurce, Puerto Rico 00940, replied to our letter mentioning that there were still a number of copies of the book available to those studying ancient religious catastrophism and Velikovsky's ideas and that anyone wishing to have one would be welcome to write for a free copy. It is stressed that the work is partly an interpretation of ... with another. Other readers may wish to make more valid or expert comment upon what appears to be Mooney's over simplistic rejection of Velikovsky's theories. - D. Shelley-Pearce. Catastrophist Geology Year 2, No. 2 Whilst it taxes patience to the point of exasperation to receive it nine months after the publication date of December 1977, Volume 2 ...
192. Long Term Violation of Uniformitarianism Demonstrated by Fossil Discoveries in Polar Regions [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1991 No 2 (Jan 1992) Home | Issue Contents HORIZONS Long Term Violation of Uniformitarianism Demonstrated by Fossil Discoveries in Polar Regions (An address to be read in absentia for the November 1991 Haliburton seminar) Notwithstanding his documented shortcomings, Immanuel Velikovsky, more than any other individual, was the catalyst ... the revival of catastrophist thought in the space and earth sciences since World War Two. The Alvarez paper of 1980 sparked the productive phase of modern catastrophism, with ordinary scientists publishing findings that supported a hypothesized catastrophe of meteoric or cometary collision at the K-T boundary. Over 80 scientific reports support this disruptive event of 65 million years ago. Clube ...
193. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1996:1 Home | Issue Contents Society News Velikovsky's 100th birthday Memorial Meeting 30th Sept./1st Nov. 1995 This was held at Braziers College in place of our usual autumn meeting in Nottingham and proved to be a huge success, thanks especially to the efforts of Benny Peiser in getting together ... book's subtitle, was far from solved. Those who had read the book agreed that James had presented a very good commentary on Plato and showed him to have been a catastrophist, unlike Aristotle, whose gradualistic ideas had been behind the development of modern science. James' credibility over the location of Atlantis was, however, no better than ...
194. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1991 No 1 (July 1991) Home | Issue Contents Society News 1990 Autumn Meeting Nemesis struck the Society once again with a chain of events which led to us being unable to give members much prior notice of this meeting. However, from being in the situation only a month before in which ... by Dr. Victor Clube. Both meetings were well attended, as for once we had managed to give reasonable notice, but we were still reminded that we were a catastrophist society when proceedings were intermittently disturbed by the sounding of the fire alarm bell. Fortunately this alarm proved to be a false one and, in the true spirit of ...
195. What is Uniformitarianism and how did it get here? [Journals] [Horus]
... it stood in the way of progress in geology. He concentrated on the gradual effects of erosion and volcanic uplift to rationalize the geological observations, completely ignoring all evidence of catastrophism. The liberals were delighted, and they elected him secretary, and later president of the Geological Society. Catastrophism was dead, and the principle of Uniformitarianism was established ... in society. There was only one way to reform Parliament, and that was to destroy Paley's Natural Theology - and the only way to do that was to discredit the catastrophist notions of its religious defenders who sought to reconcile the geological evidence with the story of Genesis. Scientists in Britain and on the Continent had been making discoveries in the ...
196. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... had predecessors whose work "anticipated" some of his key tenets, there is no escaping the fact that, considered in its most fundamental terms, Velikovsky's theory of celestial catastrophe ranks as one of the most original and far-reaching works of modern times. Quite apart from his specific chronology of cosmic events, there is the extraordinary idea that the ... depth of the parallels- even though these parallels are easily detected once the concrete forms of the archetypes and the event-sequences associated with their evolution are understood. Velikovsky's legacy Those catastrophists who have been drawn to planetary mythology by Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision will find that the highly unique roles of Mars and Venus, in the reconstruction I offer in this ...
197. Collective Amnesia and the Catastrophic Basis of Soap Opera (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VII No. 2 (Winter 1982) Home | Issue Contents Collective Amnesia and the Catastrophic Basis of Soap Opera (Part I)Irving Wolfe Copyright (C ) 1981 by Irving Wolfe * Editor's Note: This paper was first presented at the Princeton Seminar- The Velikovsky Challenge- In Science and History- ... for our purpose is my own theory about the nature and function of literary art. Velikovsky's ideas on racial trauma have led to a number of subsequent concepts; and the catastrophist approach to narrative is one of these. Because, like science, it seeks only to describe and explain, its aim is not to distinguish between so-called "good ...
198. Sirius and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2000:1 "Proceedings of the SIS Silver Jubilee Event" Home | Issue Contents Sirius and Saturn by Lynn E. Rose Lynn F. Rose received both his BA in Ancient History and Classical Languages (majoring in Greek) and his MA in Philosophy from Ohio State University. He received his ... been Vaughan's view all along; I was the one who jumped the gun with the 0.1eccentricity. Nonetheless, the Ninsianna observations are of critical importance, for both catastrophists and uniformitarians. The uniformitarians see retrocalculation of an early- or mid-second-millennium fit for the Ninsianna observations as settling the chronology of W. Asia during the entire second millennium ...
199. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... This conjecture brings questions to mind concerning the locust plagues, lemurs suicidal migrations, etc. Also, there is the question: did such plagues exist prior to the cosmic catastrophe of c.1450 B.C . If not, did mutation create a change within the genes of insects and animals that are prone to swarm under certain environmental ... . Herring, Bracknell, Berkshire. Catastrophic Evolution Dear sir, The Sunday Times magazine 13/1 /80 contained a short article which I found very interesting from a catastrophist evolution point of view, and certainly merits inclusion in the biological Source-book. It showed pictures of and dealt with interviews with members of an African tribe in Southern Rhodesia ...
200. Ejections, Resonances, and Inversions [Journals] [Kronos]
... Velikovsky's tenets, as it also has been by those Velikovskians who have gone out of their way to prove its possibility. The irony is that Velikovsky's reconstruction of ancient cosmic catastrophes, as delineated in Worlds in Collision, neither stems from, nor rests on, this hypothesis. If Robert Bass is not mistaken, Velikovsky himself was quite willing ... ."(19) Yet the mytho-historical record implies that both Jupiter and Saturn obtained their present ring structures following their final clash with one another. In fact, cosmic catastrophists, myself included, missed the chance of a lifetime in failing to utilize this mytho-historical datum in predicting the existence of the newly discovered Jovian ring. Not, I ...
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