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39 pages of results. 141. The Velikovskian Vol. IV, No. 2: Contents [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol. IV, No. 2 Texts Home | Velikovskian Home The Velikovskian The Journal of Myth, History and Science Vol. IV, No. 2 (1998)Quota pars operis tanti nobis committitur CONTENTS Metamorphic Evolution , Charles Ginenthal Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, by Richard Milton ; Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott The Relevance of the Velikovksy Scenario to the Homeric Question , Hugo Meynell Reviewing Velikovsky's Venus and Mars Theories , Donald W. Patten A Tale of Two Venuses , Charles Ginenthal Chain Reactions -A Victory for Mars , Lynn E. Rose Contributors Charles Ginenthal is the author of Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky and co-author of Stephen J. Gould and ...
142. Paradise And Disaster In T. S. Eliot'S "four Quartets" [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... response to the three-fold trauma of a recent multinational war, a protracted global depression, and the threat of renewed warfare. Until the early 19th century, it was common for European philosophical disquisitions to be presented in verse form. The practice extended from the time of the pre-Socratic sage Xenophanes through that of Charles Darwin's grandfather, the naturalist Erasmus Darwin. By reviving this archaistic association, Eliot placed himself unmistakably in a long-lived and venerable Western tradition. One of the most appealing aspects of this tradition is its holism-the fact that it eschews the separation of art from science that has bedeviled our civilization for the past two centuries. Paradoxically, however, the "Four Quartets" is anything ...
143. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... out to be less than 1 in 10^40000." (emphasis added) Even the hundreds of millions of years allotted by Lyellian uniformity, it seems, are insufficient to overcome the improbabilities of Darwinian gradualist evolution. Hoyle and Wickramsinghe, while superficially flirting with astral catastrophism, are in fact seeking to gain the extra time and space Darwin still needs by "exporting" the gradualist evolutionary process from the limits of the Earth into the infinite vastness of the Universe. Where an Earthbound eternity of time proved insufficient to solve their problems, they are now appealing to a cosmic infinity of space. Comet Hits Sun sources: Daily Telegraph 12/10/81, p. ...
144. "Nearer The Gods No Mortal May Approach". File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... " © 1983 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents "Nearer The Gods No Mortal May Approach"IN MODERN SOCIETY the scientist takes the place of the priest of ancient times. He won this place after difficult battles with the clergy only a few hundred years ago, in the days of Galileo, and in the time of Darwin he clinched the victory. The priest is not omniscient; he cannot foretell what will be tomorrow. All his prophesying has to do with the Day of Judgment, and this day is so far off that nobody can ever know if there is any truth to his prophecy. But a scientist can foretell the weather of the coming weekend ...
145. Benoît De Maillet (1656-1738): A Forerunner of the Theory of the Desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , according to Voltaire, since his transformist ideas, which dispensed with divine action, would end in materialism. These transformist ideas would germinate some years later in thinkers such as Buffon [37], Hutton [38], Lamarck [39] and Chambers [40], reaching the transformist drama's catastasis with Lyell [41] and Darwin [42]. The Telliamed is a good example of the persistence of certain ideas about nature throughout the centuries. We can find both the Flood and the fall in sea level firstly in ancient cosmogonies and mythical-religious traditions [43]. From Mesopotamian civilisation to Jewish-Christian culture, through the Egyptian world and the oldest Arab traditions, the ...
146. Sagan's Pseudo-sagacity: Style As A Reflection Of Character (Or The Lack Thereof) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... readers who are unfamiliar with the theory of evolution probably believe that it's possible for a cosmic ray to pierce the belly of a dragonfly, slightly alter the genetic code in a sperm or egg cell chromosome, and nudge the species onto a course that'll culminate in a population of insects capable of discussing nuclear physics and solving differential equations. Charles Darwin would often despair when confused readers and clergymen (often one and the same) misunderstood his simple, elegant prose and got his revolutionary but easy-to-grasp ideas all balled up. (The Origin of Species is more than a great book; it's a good read.) Had Charles Darwin known that one day Ph.D . scientists like ...
147. Intensity, Scope and Suddenness [Books] [de Grazia books]
... uniformitarianism today as holding, "Although present processes are similar in kind, process rates must have been variable." But it is doubtful that any scientific catastrophist ever believed that processes were dissimilar. It has always been an argument over rates. It is also of interest, and insufficiently addressed by the many commentators who recognized that C. Darwin took from Malthus the idea behind his theory of the origin of species by means of natural selection, that he did not see the larger consequence of Malthus' idea of exponentialism. This latter idea expressed in the belief that while population rises geometrically, the means for its subsistence increases arithmetically - points to catastrophism but inversely, that is ...
148. The Ellenberger And Internet Debunkers [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... employed by Ellenberger, namely criticisms liberally salted with ad hominem comments. Richard Milton, a freelance, science writer and reporter who has been briefly involved with one of these groups has discovered the great damage that they attempt to inflict on anyone, professional scientist to amateur scientist and their anti-establishment ideas. In his book, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, he devotes a few pages to such groups who have set themselves up as the defenders of good science as opposed to those who would introduce new scientific concepts which to them must be bad science. "One group of Darwinian vigilantes who are found regularly on the Internet are referred to and, indeed, proudly refer to themselves, ...
... . At Princeton University, Earth in Upheaval, from its publication and for two decades was required reading in the paleontology course of Professor Glenn Jepsen. H.H . Hess, Chairman of the Department of Geology (later Geophysics), told me that he knew Earth in Upheaval by heart."81 Here is what Norman Macbeth in Darwin Retried states about Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval.'...he [Velikovsky] marshals the original field reports on a large number of phenomena that point inexorably to catastrophes .. .of fairly recent dates... The impact of the details and the number of phenomena (close to forty) is shattering. I hold no ...
... . In the case of catastrophism, as applied to geology or evolution, there is little doubt that in the eyes of the scientific establishment for a century or more, it has seemed as defunct as any theory could be. Even in recent books on evolution, authors usually either ignore catastrophism altogether (as in G. Ledyard Stebbins' Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity [117]), or dismiss it in a few lines. Steven Stanley, for instance, in Extinction, published in 1987 [95], called catastrophism an `outmoded belief' that `dominated geological thinking during the eighteenth century'. However, in spite of that, there is every ...
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