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39 pages of results. 201. Aeonic Aphorisms [Journals] [Aeon]
... us. PEACE-MAKING: Disarming may bring us a truce. But only disarmoring will bring us peace. PREHISTORY: Prehistory was a dream turned nightmare. Mankind forgot the dream because it was too remote and the nightmare because it was too shocking. The prehistory that we have confabulated, however, is too bland to be believed. QUANTALISM: Darwin made his quantum leap in science by denying quantum leaps in nature. REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING: We are all amnesic. We differ only in the severity of our memory loss and the extent of our interest in achieving recall. SCIENCE AND RELIGION: It is true that religion is sick but untrue that science is healthy. SICKNESS: Most ...
202. On Ecological Niches in Evolution [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... is the negative one of saying that the range of successful variants which eventually emerge could not have arisen in a random fashion. I tend to agree, but that does not affect my case, because I never said they did. The word random' has always caused difficulties in this context, so I try to avoid using it. Darwin himself said the word was not really appropriate to convey what he meant, but he couldn't think of a better one. Of course evolutionists have often used the word without qualification, and some still do, but for many evolutionists random variants' is simply a shorthand way of saying variants which have arisen without being directly specified by the ...
203. The Siwalik Hills. Ch.6 Mountains And Rifts (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... remarkable instance of rapid evolution of species," writes D. N. Wadia in his Geology of India.3The hippopotamus, which "generally is a climatically specialized type" (De Terra), pigs, rhinoceroses, apes, oxen filled the interior of the hills almost to bursting. A. R. Wallace, who shares with Darwin the honour of being the originator of the theory of natural selection, was among the first to draw attention, in terms of astonishment, to the Siwalik extinction. Many of the genera that comprised a wealth of species were extinguished to the last one; some are still represented, but by only a few species. Of nearly thirty ...
204. Book Review [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in which it is found. After all, how do we know Zinjanthropus - the grandly named "Homo Habilis" - strutted the African Rift Valley just three million years ago, and not two, or perhaps four? Leakey and Lewin reassure us by listing the scientific techniques now available which, of course, were unknown to Lyell, Darwin, and T. H. Huxley a century ago. For more recent remains (going back about 50,000 years) Carbon 14 dating, developed by W. B. Libby, is the widely-known tool. For earlier periods, other radiometric time-clocks' - Uranium-Lead, Rubidium-Strontium, and Potassium-Argon, (specifically relevant to the time-span ...
205. Wonderful Life [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... simplest unicellular organism to the ultimate creature, Homo sapiens. Yet the first appearance of multicellular animals 570 million years ago is designated the Cambrian explosion' for all major groups of animals are represented suddenly, within the space of a few million years. There is no evidence of the long, slow evolution into these major groups required by strict Darwinism. The Burgess shale fossils are from these early times and are remarkable in the detail of their preservation, having been buried in soft mud at the bottom of a shallow sea. As a result they can be studied anatomically to a degree few other fossil collections can. This makes them, according to Gould, the world's most important ...
206. Getting it Together [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... way or another they are a challenge to scholarly understanding and therefore subjects for further study or at least curiosity. The 3rd chapter is perhaps the most significant for SIS readers, mentioning as it does Velikovsky, Heinsohn, Sheldrake, Elaine Morgan and others. Again in his contrasting mode Roger Wescott discusses myth and science, evolution and revolution, Darwinism and creationism, quantalism and uniformism. Using 4 criteria which I will not spell out, he objectively examines a number of theories for the creation and for the evolution and history of the Universe and its content large and small. He comes down on the side of quantalism which is a kind of discontinuous continuity in which small changes appear ...
207. The Ivory Islands. Ch.1 In the North (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... , the herds of mammoths perished, and in a second spasmodic movement the sea rushed away, leaving the carcasses behind. This catastrophe must have been accompanied by a precipitous drop in temperature; the frost seized the dead bodies and saved them from decomposition.6 In some mammoths, when discovered, even the eyeballs were still preserved. Charles Darwin, who denied the occurrence of continental catastrophes in the past, in a letter to Sir Henry Howorth admitted that the extinction of mammoths in Siberia was for him an insoluble problem.7 J. D. Dana, the leading American geologist of the second half of the last century, wrote: "The encasing in ice of huge ...
208. Devil's Advocates [Journals] [SIS Review]
... from Ptolemy in the 2nd century through Newton in the 17th to Millikan in the 20th; such behaviour need not exclude one from the pantheon of scientific greatness or even preclude the award of a Nobel Prize, despite the often intoned myth of the rigorously objective scientist. Even complete originality of theory is not a prerequisite, as the example of Darwin clearly shows. Some of the more pathological examples of the human failings of researchers have recently been examined by William Broad and Nicholas Wade in Betrayers of Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (Century Publishing 1983). In a review of this book (Times Literary Supplement, Sep. 9, 1983) Professor John ...
209. Dropped Ocean Level. Ch.11 Klimasturz (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... of the bottom, or a slow spread of the ocean over land, or a slow evaporation of oceanic water: whatever it was, it was sudden and therefore catastrophic. Thirty-five hundred years ago was the middle of the second millennium before the present era, at the close of the Middle Bronze Age in Egypt. Notes. 1. Darwin, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America, Pt. II, Chaps. IX and XV. 2. L. Don Leet, Causes of Catastrophes (1948), p. 186. 3. Daly, Our Mobile Earth, p. 177. 4. Ibid., p. 178. 5 ...
210. Quotes [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.- Arthur C. Clarke (1917- ), British science-fiction writer. But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.- Francis Darwin (1848-1925), British scientist. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Theft from a single author is plagiarism- from three or more it is research. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your ...
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