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39 pages of results. 111. The Planet Earth, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... already made and he did not find himself able to offer a solution. "These ideas have haunted, I may almost say have tormented me during my researches among fossil bones."(2 ) Cuvier's theory of stabilized forms of life and of annihilating catastrophes was supplanted by a theory of evolution in geology (Lyell) and biology (Darwin). The mountains are what is left of plateaus eroded by wind and water in a very slow process. Sedimentary rock is detritus of igneous rock eroded by rain, then carried to sea, and there slowly deposited. Skeletons of birds and of land animals in these rocks are presumed to have belonged to animals that waded close to ...
112. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the late Mr Taylor, a scientific journalist of repute, writes that Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is crumbling under the attack of its critics we should all sit up and take note. For, without having to doubt the fact of evolution, he has produced what may be the most comprehensive book to date on the inadequacies of Darwinism. This is a highly readable book, posing many riddles Darwinism has been unable to solve, and which remain mysterious and enigmatic. "Frontiers of Science"In our last issue we reported on the March-April 1982 edition of this magazine and its reappraisal of Velikovsky. Further issues were planned to debate his contribution, but unfortunately Frontiers of ...
113. Radiocarbon Dating The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... and probably many, many others unknown to this author. They all deserve a place in science for drawing the correct conclusion of cataclysm as a process inherent to the geological history of the Earth; and Velikovsky stands towering among them. The overwhelming strength of this global, catastrophic evidence suggests in powerful terms that something overwhelmed the Earth. As Darwin, himself a uniformitarian, was forced to admit when he looked at the devastation in South America, and asked,... "What, then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind, at first, is irresistibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus, to destroy animals, ...
114. Stories of Radioactivity and Mutations [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... uniformity of geological and environmental events over past hundreds of millions of years. A crack in this belief is appearing, which has caused a general acceptance of the idea of extraterrestrially induced catastrophes every several millions of years. Gould, a proponent for punctuated equilibrium of evolution, advocates that cultural traditions, not objective science, was the reason for Darwin to accept and reinforce the victory of Lyell's uniformity argument over the catastrophism of Cuvier and Agassiz [17]. But if it is proven that the multi- million year cycle is of too long a span, and that Velikovsky is correct for advocating a much shorter span, then it may well be us, of the era of ...
115. The Knowledge Industry [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and therefore all things were politicized and relevant subjects for investigation. Indeed, Deg, in his typically optimistic manner (he would pick up a redhot stove), had conceived of the true interests of marxist theory as residing in catastrophism, not uniformitarianism. Why he asked himself, sometime around 1978, did Marx and Engels so strongly endorse Darwin, fashioning the pattern for marxists to follow ever since (the heresy of Lysenko in the 1950's being a significant incident thereto)? Perhaps, he thought, the model of catastrophism did not give them a broad natural inclined plane for the progression of history; it defeats man's greatest works in an instant. It pays hob with the ...
116. Prehistory and Earth Models [Books]
... 159) could not possibly have provided an original source of rock materials for all these mountain systems; and it is in any case broadly covered with sub-horizontal Cambrian and Ordovician sediments. Australia has been quoted as the ideal example of a continent that has, since Algonkian time, grown successively to the east from an original coastline extending roughly from Darwin to Melbourne. The great Palaeozoic and Mesozoic rock systems of the east, however, rest upon a continental foundation that from seismic observations is 30-40 Km thick. Unquestionably, ever since Archean time a foundation of the continent has existed in the eastern as well as the western half of the continent.* (vi) Lastly, though ...
117. The Climate Hypothesis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... long droughts do not cause elephants or rhinos to migrate. They simply do not know where to go. The climate theory proposes that the habitats of the various animals were destroyed and that their edible flora that no longer existed drove the megafauna to extinction. But the same argument must also apply to the animals that did not become extinct. Darwin saw definitively that this theory made no sense, and wrote about it during his visit to South America. "No one I think can have marvelled more at the extinction of species than I have done. When I found in [Argentina in] La Plata the tooth of a horse embedded with the remains of Mastodon, Megatherium, ...
118. Catastrophism and Uniformity: A Probe into the Origins of the 1832 Gestalt Shift in Geology [Books]
... 1833), a work written in support of political liberalism although ostensibly it was an objective work in science free from any political implications. In his letter of May 3rd to Lyell, Babbage was explaining why he would not write a favorable review of the book. Quite wisely, the Whig scientists, like Babbage, Lyell, Scrope, Darwin and Mantell, did not want the public to know that what was being promoted as objective truth was little more than thinly disguised political propaganda. The purpose of this paper is to explicate what Babbage means by the word "radical," and the word "cause," when he writes, as quoted above: "I think ...
119. The Origins of Modern Geological Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... 1833), a work written in support of political liberalism- although ostensibly it was an objective work in science free from any political implications. In his letter of May 3 to Lyell, Babbage was explaining why he would not write a favorable review of the book. Quite wisely, the Whig scientists, like Babbage, Lyell, Scrope, Darwin and Mantell, did not want the public to know that that which was being promoted as objective truth was little more than thinly disguised political propaganda. The purpose of this paper is to explicate what Babbage means by the words "radical" and the word "cause," when he writes, as quoted above: "I think ...
120. Sinking and Rising Lands [Books] [de Grazia books]
... this idea with the notion of continental drift, and hence continental drift in recent times, was the Soviet ethnographer, A. Zolotaryov. He was deeply influenced by Wegener's book and presented his synthesis in 1931. Before Zolotaryov, the Tamil (Dravidian) legends and the many ancient commentators had impressed others. Thomas Huxley, the apostle of Darwinism, wrote that mankind had originated on the now sunken continent, Lemuria. Frederick Engels, the intimate cohort of Karl Marx, and a believer in Darwin's theory of evolution, wrote that a "particularly highly developed race of anthropoid apes lived somewhere in the tropical zone - probably on a great continent that has now sunk to the bottom ...
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