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114 pages of results. 161. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology [Articles]
... you have and calculate the age of the Earth. So you assume its age to calculate it. And that's how it's done. Now it's a little more complicated in that they reconcile other elements that decay, such as potassium, and thorium, and the other two isotopes of uranium that decay, so that through a large and convoluted circle, they forgot where they started and came back to the beginning and said, aha, we're right, the Earth is very old, and give us this age of four and a half billion years. You see I don't have a terrible amount of respect for this particular method of dating, as we just don't have enough information ...
162. The Relativity Question by Ian McCausland [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Numbers The central tomb and mound of Knowth is surrounded by 15 smaller passage graves. The number 15 may not be significant .. . but on the other hand it might have some kind of hidden meaning. For instance, there were 150 great stones at Avebury, ( = 10 times 15). There were 90 around the great circle ( = 3 times 30 or 30 times 3) and 30 around each of the two inner circles. At Stonehenge there were 30 upright sarsen stones capped with a continuous row of 30 lintels. Inside the circle was a horseshoe of 5 free archways of 3 stones (3 5 = 15). Phillip Clapham \cdrom\pubs ...
163. A Glance at Compartive Mythology by Isaac Vail [Books]
... race, the ruins of whose civilization remain to us, but whose stories we have lost. We may not read in those still unciphered characters the legend of their sun god, although we have enough to tell us that they did worship the sun as their chief deity. But we read: "On Aztec ruins gray and lone The circling serpent coils in stone Type of the endless and unknown" Moreover we have it stated on authority that no symbolic device is more common among the antiquities of Mexico and Central America than this form of the serpent. Here also may be seen as a prominent figure in the Aztec inscriptions a small Greek cross enclosed in a circle. This ...
164. Arctic Tundra Mammoth Steppe Or Velikovskian Poleshift? [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... who hold the view that tundra vegetation would support the mammoth and all the various other megafauna herbivores are simply being irrational. Several authorities cited above all say tundra will not support ancient mammal populations. As pointed out above, Charles Lyell posited the idea that mammoths could migrate from the Siberian tundra to escape the months of darkness above the Arctic Circle and the cruel winter temperatures. In his Principles of Geology, however, he realized that this concept was in stark contradiction to the facts: ". .. we may infer, that the climate was milder then...because, in Northern Russia, where their bones are found in immense numbers, it would be difficult ...
165. Carl Sagan Exposed [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ? ' "` Of course not, ' responded the scientist. `But it seems to work whether you believe it or not. ' "I can imagine Carl Sagan commenting on that story. There is a distressing survival of superstition and pseudoscience among people who ought to know better. Even college graduates believe in UFO abductions, crop circles as signals from alien beings, astrology, faith healing, and so on. Often they convince themselves that a superstitious practice `works' because of anecdotal evidence." In short, many people believe whatever they want to believe, and support their belief with bad reasoning. What such credulous people need, according to Carl Sagan, ...
166. The Celestial Harmony, Prologue Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Celestial Harmony The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The day consists of twenty-four hours. The year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, and 49 minutes. The moon circles around the earth, changing its phases- crescent, full, decrescent. The terrestrial axis points in the direction of the polar star. After winter comes spring, then summer and fall. These are common facts. Are they invariable laws? Must it be so forever? Was it so always? The sun has nine planets. Mercury has no satellites; Venus has no ...
167. Prologue: The Good Earth (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... hours and our social activities if the entire span from rising to going to sleep were only five hours, or interchanged once in fifty-eight terrestrial days as on Venus, or at even longer intervals as on Mercury. On the Earth, travelling in an orbit of 365 days' duration, the plants complete their cycle, and with each new circling nature regenerates; the inclination of the axis to the plane of revolution causes seasons and their sequence. These situations and phenomena are responsible for the development of life on the planet and for its progression to presently existing forms, man included. With all his ingenuity, man has not yet succeeded in creating life from inorganic material; but ...
168. Avebury: The Biography of a Landscape, by Joshua Pollard and Andrew Reynolds (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS C & C Review 2004:2 Incorporating Workshop 2004:3 (August 2004) Home | Issue Contents REVIEWS Avebury: The Biography of a Landscape, by Joshua Pollard and Andrew Reynolds.Tempus of Stroud, 2002. Phillip Clapham This is a comprehensive book on the landscape around the famous Avebury stone circle on the chalk downs of Wessex. It's a thoroughly modern book, full of archaeological-speak, inwhich obscure words are used to describe mundane functions and features uncovered by the trowel. Nevertheless, when you get used to the way it is written, it does become lucid and digestible. The actual description of Avebury itself is immense and I shall restrict my ...
169. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , about 80 km south east of Auckland. As the crow flies, Thames is 275 km north west of Napier, across the widest part of North Island. By sea, however, the distance is more like 700 km and the pressure waves, or whatever, in the sea would have had to describe three quarters of a full circle in travelling from Napier to Thames - 80 km east from Napier, then 220 km north east to East Cape, 320 km north west to the tip of Coromandel and finally 80 km south. Here is a contemporary eyewitness account of an astounding sea withdrawal and reappearance. Were the Old Testament and Josephus so fanciful after all? Eric ...
170. Night of the Gods: The Stone [Books]
... mariner's compass, but in the geomantic instrument used in the Feng-Shui hocus-pocus which still exercises a supreme hold over the whole nation. This consists of the 8 glyphs or graphs or grams or changes of the Y-King, from (S . or N.W .) to (N . or S.W .) , ranged round a circle, with inner compartments indicating planetary, elementary, stellar and animalistic lucky or disastrous influences. The whole 64 (8 x 8) of the doubled or reinforced signs are sometimes displayed; and in their centre pivots the magnetic needle,16 which thus has (and may from an untold antiquity have had) no connexion whatever with navigation ...
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