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144 pages of results. 471. Legends and Miracles [Books] [de Grazia books]
... descended that he discharged static electricity in coming down? As mountaineers have testified, St. Elmo's fire under certain propitious conditions, even now, will stream like horns from the ears of a subject and from any tool he is carrying. The horns of animals stream fire, too, in such circumstances. And always in mind is the comet with its horns reaching far out from its head. Close the horns and there arises a halo, given to Moses and to saints. The later saints got their radiant halos' by traditional inference; for them it is a medal, like millions of Christians wear the crucifix without experiencing crucifixion. Earth and heaven are united in a ...
472. The Establishment of Gradualism [Books]
... substantive uniformity, postulating that the rate of changes during the prehistoric past have on average been of about the same intensity as at present, is now recognized as an a priori assumption, just as Whewell and others claimed long ago" [4 : p. 176]. Because of what we now know about the incidence of asteroids and comets in Earth-crossing orbits, and the holes in the ground caused by the impacts of such bodies (see chapter 1), the astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier have gone so far as to claim that `catastrophism is uniformitarianism' [6 ]. With all this in mind, let us go on to consider the historical development of ...
473. The Merlin 'Vision' and the 6th Century 'Event' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... regards as the cause of Myrddin's lapse'. Interestingly, the battle of Arfderydd is recorded in the oldest text of the Annales Cambriae as occurring in AD 573 - which reminds me of AD 536 event' and the upheaval of the 6th century. Could this tale of the vision' by the Merlin figure be a recollection of a fragmenting comet/asteroid event', with the tremendous din' being a Tunguska-like airburst? Could the given date of AD 573 for the battle of Arfderydd be out by 37 years? In South-East Wales, the tradition is that Arthur was King of Glamorgan and Gwent (Morganwg), being the son of King Meurig, who was son of ...
474. The Trouble With Aztex [Journals] [Kronos]
... Flandern also stated that, other than the surviving asteroids, "the only other remaining debris that we have any chance of seeing today would be objects hurled to great distances from the Sun but eventually pulled back by its gravity".(40) He then added: "Only one kind of celestial object matches that description perfectly- the comet."(41) Thus, regardless of what else has been written about these intriguing sky wanderers, Van Flandern believes that the comets were born when Ovenden's planet Aztex exploded. (Was Velikovsky not derided when he expressed his concurrence with ancient opinion that comets were born from the planets?)(40) Van Flandern went on ...
475. A Record of Success [Journals] [Pensee]
... other planets, perhaps as a secondary solar explosion, or perhaps in a collision of planets." The National Observer, December, 1962. See also J. A. Van Allen, et al., "Mariner II: Preliminary Reports on Measurements of Venus," Science, 139 (March 8, 1963), 905-11. COMETS AND METEORITES A large comet was in collision with Earth. (W in C, 39-152) There is a layer of white ash covering the oceans' floors that, according to J. L. Worzel and M. Ewing, was deposited in a "cometary collision" --or from a "fiery end of bodies of cosmic origin ...
476. S.I.S. Workshop Vol. 5, No. 3 September 1983: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 1982/83 SOCIETY NEWS 1 FORUM: Concerning the Rohl-James Chronology outlined in Workshop 5:2 6 ARTICLES Josephus and Velikovsky by George R. Harvey 13 The Pleiades in Aboriginal Mythology J. E. Aitchison 16 A Few Comments Upon Reading "Worlds in Collision" by Paul W. Standring 18 BOOKSHELF 21 MONITOR : Saturn's Recent Rings * Comet Catastrophes * Venus as a Comet? * Fossil Dating in Action * A New Model for Crustal Deformation * "Cosmic Catastrophes" * New Astronomy: West = South! * Philistine Pick * Unexplained Glass Layer * Terminal Eocene Event? * Problems in Glacial Chronology * Fundamentally the Same * Death Knell of Natural Selection * Earthquake Electrics * ...
477. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 684 We have reported the theory of Keith Runcorn of Newcastle University that the remanent magnetism of the Moon was generated by the dynamo method (WORKSHOP 5:1 , p.35) and found it unconvincing. The Moon no longer has an intrinsic magnetic field: alternative explanations have been offered, but these are of a catastrophist natures involving comet asteroid strikes on the lunar surface (see WORKSHOP 2:4 , p.9 and 3:2 , p.19). In his latest article in NATURE, Runcorn argues that the simplest explanation of lunar magnetism is his postulate of an internally generated magnetic field. This requires the Moon to have an iron core, but ...
478. Venus Before Exodus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 37]. Some of you will have heard Elizabeth Chesley-Baitty speak here on her studies of the fire-bull ritual, and will remember how she said "something must have really frightened them" in explanation for this widespread practice. This is also the theme of Zvi Rix's "Great Terror", an article concerning the terror effect of the Venus comet which he wrote for Kronos [38]. Another of Rix's ideas was that of a "phallic" Venus-comet [39]. Martin Sieff has brilliantly combined these ideas to account for the practice of circumcision. You see, Abraham, Ishmael, and all of Abraham's men are circumcised en masse, three days before Venus destroys Sodom ...
479. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , Baal and the Aten', in C&CW 2003:2 , pp. 5-8, he includes a note on some of Dr Victor Clube's proposals. He comments that the only way the Ninsinanna record could be tied to a cometary rather than a planetary body would be to postulate that the observers were actually seeing a succession of comets, rather than a single celestial body. In my opinion this is a misconception, as a comet can follow any permissible orbit in just the same way as a wandering' planet. It follows that if the Ninsianna observations can be made to fit Venus they can also be made to fit Clube's comet. I have struggled hard, ...
480. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . A similar spot was first observed in 1876 and has recurred roughly every 27 to 30 years, in synchrony with the planet's orbital period, though astronomers have no idea why there should be such a synchronism. Frankly speaking New Scientist 17.11.90, p. 56 Louis Frank, the space physicist who believes that countless small comets enter Earth's atmosphere every day and are the source of Earth's water, has written a book about his theory and the resulting ostracism by orthodox science. Science is a savage little game'. Unexpected oil New Scientist 12.1 .91, pp. 44-7 Oil does not only occur in the geological strata in which it is expected ...
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