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39 pages of results. 101. The Dawnseekers: the First History of American Paleontology by Robert West Howard [Journals] [Kronos]
... Lyell is held to be the father of modern geology. Ironically, he was never to accept the theory of human evolution. In fact, it is not clear whether Lyell ever did seriously consider as true the evolution of plants and nonhuman animals.(8 ) By the middle of the last century, the major works of Charles Robert Darwin established evolutionary biology on a firm ratioempirical foundation: The Origin of Species (1859) presented the theory of "descent with modification" of plants and nonhuman animals through natural selection, while The Descent of Man (1871) extended the evolutionary theory to account for both the origin and historical development of the human zoological group itself. The ...
102. On the Disproportion between Geological Time and Historical Time Part One - Of Apes and Men [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ' [28]. Monkey Business in Asia The aforementioned evidence would seem to nullify the case for man's evolution from certain apes 2-3 million years ago. So, on what contrary evidence, presumably even more compelling, is that bizarre notion founded? What obliges us to believe such bad news about the human race? We begin with Charles Darwin himself. He was so convinced of the vastness of the geological ages and of the power of time and natural selection to create the world by accident, that he wrote his book The Descent of Man in ignorance of any fossil evidence that man had descended from the apes. His earlier argument, The Origin of Species, on which ...
103. Beyond Bauer [Journals] [Aeon]
... could be argued here, however, that while Velikovsky's flaws are bound to influence our opinion of him as a reliable writer, they need affect but little our appraisal of his specific thesis of planetary catastrophism or overall contribution to the natural sciences. Analogous cases abound in the history of science. For example, if one was to judge Charles Darwin by the many hare-brained ideas contained within his notebooks compiled prior to On the Origin of Species, one would be tempted to classify him together with Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor rather than with the giants of intellectual history. (15) (Indeed, On the Origin of Species itself contains more than its share of wrong-headed ideas, as ...
104. Poleshifts, Catastrophes, And Myths [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... twisted out of shape and meshed together that his philosophy has tied the hands of all serious thinkers from even attempting to unravel the evidence that so clearly pointed to recent cataclysms. But it has done even greater damage than that by stifling investigations along these lines; it has blinded those who, looking at the clear evidence of catastrophism, as Darwin did in South America, could see nothing but the doctrine he had imbibed at the feet of Lyell. As an instrument of established science, uniformity has been responsible for long abuse not only of the way evidence has been handled, but for the abuse of workers in these areas of study who transgressed the dogma that Lyell established. ...
105. Atlantis - The Lost Continent Finally Found [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... with Shiva, also called Sthanu, an epithet meaning "Pillar of Heaven" in Sanskrit. Q17: How was Atlantis actually destroyed? A: By means of the giant cataclysm we call the Flood. The views on the Flood- and indeed on global cataclysms in general- has been grossly misstated by geologists ever since the times of Darwin and Lyell. Quite often they are caused by meteoritic/planetary impacts of extra-terrestrial origin. Far more often, they are caused by the cataclysmic endings of the Ice Age Episodes which have occurred fairly regularly at intervals of 30,000 years or so. The Flood was indeed caused by one such, and is just the last of ...
106. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... it denigrates his thesis as "hopelessly misguided". Nevertheless, this book will be a must for all catastrophists; it is a tribute to the vitality of Velikovsky's thesis that so many of his ideas reappear in it. THE NECK OF THE GIRAFFE by Francis Hitching (Pan Books; London, 1982). Subtitled, "Or Where Darwin Went Wrong", this book comes from the same stable that produced THE WORLD ATLAS OF MYSTERIES yet is as down to-earth as the latter is esoteric. A lucid debunk of Darwin and neo-Darwinism, this book fairly takes orthodox evolutionary theory (and dogma) to task. It is quietly crushing to the modern heresy of "Creationism" ...
107. New Methods of Investigation [Books]
... The explosion vaporizes and melts some of the surrounding rocks, producing a dust cloud which deposits cinders similar to volcanic ashes. Impactites are geological deposits considered as explosion products related to meteoritic structures. They consist of natural glass formed as a result of the explosion. They include mainly silica glass, specially studied by L. J. Spencer16 and Darwin glass (so called because it was first recognized near Mt Darwin in Tasmania). Impactites have been found in most of the well-established meteorite craters (Barringer Crater, Wabar, Henbury, etc.). Often they contain minute magnetic iron-nickel spherules which leave no doubt about their origin. Impactites have been reproduced artificially in the laboratory. ...
108. Plato. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... said in so many words in his various works. The Aristotelian negation of the traumas of the past, built into a philosophical system that covers many fields of human knowledge, became the rock on which the Alexandrian schools of physics, geometry and astronomy of Archimedes, Euclid and Claudius Ptolemy were built. The teaching of uniformitarianism (Lyell, Darwin) is a nineteenth-century version of Aristotelianism. And as much as the Church Scientific (Thomas Huxley's expression) still follows in the steps of Darwin, it is still Aristotelian; and, in following Isaac Newton in the study of celestial space and the bodies populating it, the Church Scientific is again Aristotelian. And as much as the ...
109. Chaos and Creation by Alfred de Grazia [Books] [de Grazia books]
... had he laid down his pen, when human remains were found alongside the bones of extinct mammoths. By contrast, the upcoming scientists of the last century argued that the world's history was long and evolutionary. On their side were those who were to become the treasured ancestors of science today - Charles Lyell (1795-1875) in geology, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) in biology, Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) in astronomy, and Lewis H. Morgan (1818-1881)as well as the versatile communist, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895),in sociology and anthropology. The new group came to dominate scientific circles and scientific thought. The catastrophists disappeared from the scientific mind save as an old ...
110. An Objective Approach to the Work of Velikovsky [Articles]
... worthy of continuing support and investigation, but of scholarly and scientific support and investigation, buttressed by rigid objectivity and scientific scholarship. What I am insisting is that Dr. Velikovsky, who was undoubtedly a brilliant man, suffered from the same limitations as did all brilliant men before him, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, namely human fallibility. I realize that many of you must be thinking that Velikovsky denied any infallibility in the introduction to AIC, yes indeed he did, and his supporters, too, are quick to say, of course Velikovsky made mistakes, but in dealing with Velikovsky personally and in dealing with so many of his ...
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