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39 pages of results. 11. Darwin In South America. Ch.3 Uniformity (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... From "Earth in Upheaval" © 1955 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Darwin In South America Charles Darwin, who had previously dropped his medical studies at Edinburgh University, upon his graduation in theology from Christ College, Cambridge, went in December 1831 as a naturalist on the ship Beagle, which sailed around the world on a five-year surveying expedition. Darwin had with him the newly published volume of Lyell's Principles of Geologv that became his Bible. On this voyage he wrote his journal, the second edition of which he dedicated to Lyell. This round-the-world voyage was Darwin's only fieldwork experience in geology and paleontology, and he drew on it all his life long ...
12. Marx, Engels, and Darwin [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Marx, Engels, and Darwin More research is needed to delineate the attitudes of Karl Marx and Frederick (or Friedrich) Engels towards the Uniformitarian and Catastrophist paradigms of the nineteenth century, and to explain why the two men chose to align themselves with the Uniformitarian rather than the Catastrophist mode of thought. After all, were they not complete revolutionaries? The term "paradigm" has been popularized by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; 2nd ed., Chicago, U. of Chicago Press, 1970). The term embraces much of the theory and discussion ...
13. Darwinian Diary, part I (Book reviews) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol VI No 4 (1984) Home | Issue Contents In Passing EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Darwinian Diary, part I by Trevor Palmer Books Discussed THE NECK OF THE GIRAFFE: or where Darwin went wrong by Francis Hitching (Pan Books: London, 1982; £2 .50 paperback, 288 pages, illustrated) DARWINISM DEFENDED: a guide to the evolution controversies by Michael Ruse (Addison-Wesley: Reading, Massachusetts, 1982; £6 .95 paperback, 356 pages, illustrated) DARWIN UP TO DATE: a New Scientist guide edited by Jeremy Cherfas (New Scientist Publications: London, 1982; £3 .75 paperback, 72 A4 pages, illustrated ...
... , i.e ., from the Renaissance. In this section, I will explore the nature of that ancestry to show that the very deepest issue which characterizes the Velikovsky Affair of our century has remained at the forefront of our culture's preoccupations for some 24 centuries, not merely six, and that it continues unfortunately to this day. Darwin To appreciate this, we have to step back 100 years before the Velikovsky Affair and turn to the story of Charles Darwin and the reason why he wrote The Origin of Species. I said in the opening chapter of this book that the Velikovsky Affair is the darkest blot in the history of ideas since Galileo and Bruno four centuries ago ...
15. Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in science and religion, but they were all convinced of the importance of truth in both disciplines. They sought to accommodate their science and their Christian faith in different ways, but there was never a battle over whether or not God was the creator and upholder of the natural world. ' [6 : p. 37] When Charles Darwin was an undergraduate at Cambridge (intending, at that stage, to become a clergyman himself) he attended the lectures of both Henslow and Sedgwick and they did much to encourage his growing interest in biology and geology. Darwin became known as the man who walks with Henslow' and it was Henslow, in fact, who was instrumental ...
16. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , regardless of the opinions being expressed, gives a fair indication of concepts and evidence, and the scientist remembers that the purpose of writing is to produce something for others to read. Richard Milton is a journalist with an engineering background and in he Facts of Life, he attempts, as the sub-title proclaims, to shatter the myth of Darwinism. Thus, whatever the point of view, this book is timely, for Darwinism (the theory that variations arise in a population by mechanisms unrelated to environmental pressures and natural selection then determines which form the basis of subsequent generations) has been at the centre of considerable debate over the past quarter century. There is still much uncertainty ...
17. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... really just a centenary celebration or was it symptomatic of a deeper unrest? The editorial comment (15.4 .82, p. 122) made the excellent observation: "Unfortunately, the words he wrote more than a century ago are in danger of exerting a stranglehold over thought every bit as powerful as the stranglehold of theology that Darwin helped to break." It went on to say: "The argy-bargy within biology about aspects of natural selection and evolution is an entirely healthy manifestation of a robust science striving to achieve a deeper understanding of the world around us." This latter comment was seemingly justified by four of the later articles. Colin Patterson of the Natural ...
18. Racial Memory and Instinct: The Case of the Honeyguide [Journals] [Aeon]
... , but, rather, as the beneficiary of the cumulative experience and knowledge acquired by generations of ancestors for whom the symbiotic interaction with mammals was a long-established habit. In order to understand the simplicity, logical force, and breadth of appeal of the Lamarckian position, it is necessary to briefly review its history. Racial Memory: Lamarck and Darwin Jean-Baptiste Pierre-Antoine de Lamarck is rightly regarded as the originator of the first systematic theory of evolution. Lamarck's magnum opus, Philosophie Zoologique, was published in 1809 and subsequently languished in obscurity until Darwin's On the Origin of Species made evolution a household word and the cornerstone of the biological sciences (the word biology was actually coined by Lamarck) ...
19. Natural Evolution And Revolution. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Natural Evolution And Revolution Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection appeared in November of 1859 and was an immediate success; on the day of publication, the whole edition of 1,250 copies was sold out. In books on the history of science, and more specifically in books on Darwin, one regularly reads of the bitter opposition the book provoked. This statement needs qualification. It is true that the great names in science of the time like Louis Agassiz, the ichthyologist, the botanist Asa Gray and others expressed upon reflection great reservations at Darwin's views, yet they did so without disrespect and purely on scientific grounds. ...
20. Ever Since Darwin: A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VII No. 4 (Summer 1982) "Evolution, Extinction, and Catastrophism" Home | Issue Contents "Ever Since Darwin": A Review Peter J. James Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the SIS Review, Vol . IV, No. 1 under the title "Darwinian Man". It is reprinted here by the permission of the author. - LMG Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of palaeontology and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, has already established himself as a popular science writer through a regular column in Natural History, and is now reaching a much wider audience in Britain in the pages of the New Scientist. The ...
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