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39 pages of results. 221. A Catastrophic Calendar [Books] [de Grazia books]
... fossil record conceal the fact of uniformitarian changes; "the lowest percentage of gap in the strata in the whole of the history of the Earth would occur precisely on the boundary between the Permian and the Triassic." (p .20) Thus one of the very earliest of uniformitarian and evolutionary as against quantavolutionary, defenses, proposed by Darwin himself, collapses. Cf. Velikovsky (1955), 237-9. 8. Salop (1977) 30-1; Ericson et al. (1963). 9. Velikovsky (1955); Eiseley (1943) (1946); Flint(1971). 10. Cf. Eliade (1963) 113 and ch. IX. ...
222. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Journals] [Kronos]
... in order to appear either whimsical or alarmist. Some reflection on the major catastrophes by which our own century has already been desolated should make clearer the mode of reasoning to which I am referring. It is well known that the totalitarian systems perfected by Hitler and Stalin derived their ideological bases from appeals to scientific "discoveries", those of Darwin and Marx respectively. But we have shown ourselves perhaps less inclined than we ought to analyse the reasoning by which these systems proceeded from "pure" science to a programme of action involving mass murder and terror. Essentially, they took as an incontrovertible authority for their actions the laws of nature which science was supposed to have established. ...
223. Some Interdisciplinary Speculations (?) [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... able to cope if it consciously understood that that system is probably quite unstable and could come unglued any day in ways which the race could not hope to survive. It occurs to me that our current manic behaviour might seem tame compared to what might ensue. Perhaps this is the fundamental reason that lies behind the desperate efforts of Lyell and Darwin, and their descendants, Shapley and Sagan, to assure the race that all is well with the physical world. Perhaps even, that is why Newton came down so hard on Whiston... OUR reviewer, Roy MacKinnon, notes that "wind and storm tracks are noted for affecting the physical and mental health of people. ...
224. Velikovsky -- what has survived? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... in print in various forms and provoke wonder and controversy for a long time to come. So, in short, he is more likely to be something of a cult figure, like Donnelly, Bruno, and Mesmer, than a central canonical figure in intellectual history such as Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Freud, Jung, Darwin etc- even though these folks may also lose their credentials of validity and their ideas become superceded, they themselves are likely to remain cultural icons as long as our particular civilization lasts. ...
225. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... are therefore only a product of chance encounters of purpose and provision. Under these circumstances, scientists follow the laws of nonrational collective behaviour. They think in stereotypes (e .g . the eternal harmony of the spheres, uniformitarianism, catastrophism). They circulate ideas via popularization and texts [16]. Thus have Newton, Galileo, Darwin, Freud and Einstein been conveyed. Scientists are at the mercy of popularizers. Their own minds are formed by simplistic ideas, try as they will to evade their grip. A new theory spreads as a rumour, simplified, overly precise, and success comes as a surprise. No two persons understand its extended meanings quite alike. ...
226. Additional Examples of Correct Prognosis [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . This appeared even more objectionable since celestial mechanics had been solidly erected on the notion of gravitation, inertia and pressure of light as the only forces acting in the void, the celestial bodies being electrically and magnetically sterile in their inter-relations. Worlds in Collision, in its Preface, was acknowledged as heresy in fields where the names Newton and Darwin are supreme. The only quantitative attempt to disprove one of my main theses was made by D. Menzel of Harvard College Observatory (1952) [1 ]. He showed ( 'if Velikovsky wants quantitative discussion, let us give him one'), on certain assumptions, that were I right the sun would need to hold ...
227. Contributors [Journals] [Kronos]
... graduate in ancient history and archaeology and a specialist in Mesopotamian Studies. He is also an Assistant Editor of SIS Review to which he has contributed numerous scholarly articles. Norman Macbeth (B .A ., Stanford; J.D ., Harvard); Retired attorney, now Honorary Lecturer at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Author of Darwin Retried and several short pieces on problems of evolution. Lynn E. Rose (Ph.D ., University of Pennsylvania); Dr. Rose is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In addition to his graduate work in ancient philosophy, his baccalaureate major was in ancient history and classical languages. ...
228. Extinction And Survival [Books]
... masses of bones of mammoths, rhinoceroses, buffaloes, horses, and other animals, mixed with uprooted trees and fossilized charcoal. Northern Asia tells the same story of destruction and sudden death as Alaska. No subject has given rise to so much controversy as the discovery of the frozen carcasses, and the huge numbers of Pleistocene skeletons. Charles Darwin was obliged to admit that the extinction of the mammals of Siberia was for him `an insoluble problem'.18 The American geologist I. D. Dana wrote: `The incasing in ice of huge elephants, and the perfect preservation of the flesh, shows that the cold finally became suddenly extreme, as of a single winter's ...
229. Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... and his opponents turns clearly in his favor. Earth in Upheaval © 1955 Immanuel Velikovsky Full Text Not Available Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 In the North: In Alaska The Ivory Islands Chapter 2 Revolution: The Erratic Boulders Sea And Land Changed Places The Caves Of England The Aquatic Graveyards Chapter 3 Uniformity: The Doctrine Of Uniformity The Hippopotamus Icebergs Darwin In South America Chapter 4 Ice: The Birth Of The Ice Age Theory On The Russian Plains Ice Age In The Tropics Greenland Corals Of The Polar Regions Whales In The Mountains Chapter 5 Tidal Wave: Fissures In The Rocks The Norfolk Forest-bed Cumberland Cavern In Northern China The Asphalt Pit Of La Brea Agate Spring Quarry Chapter 6 Mountains And ...
230. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a defence mechanism against the trauma. Those reactions lead to avoiding, forgetting, amnesia, phobia. The combination of these contradictory reactions creates the neurotic conflict. We meet in historical literature as well as in modern scientific publications such negative reactions and Velikovsky draws attention to the "scientific scotoma" which operates to deny catastrophism, citing Aristotle and Darwin whose influence on human thought was, and still is, very strong. In our atomic age the repetition-compulsion reaction is the greatest danger for life on Earth. Velikovsky writes: "As a psychoanalyst I returned many times to the problem of awaking the human conscious mind to the forgotten heritage of ages. The traumatic experiences that humans keep ...
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