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39 pages of results. 231. Religion and Education [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Constitution prescribes and allow to the foregoing. V. What positions may be advocated in public? Practically any. What is disallowed? (e .g . the overthrow of government by violence). VI. What may be advocated in public schools? Describe and document 1. Systematically (in the curriculum), e.g . darwinism. 2. Personally (e .g . deism, sexism) 3. Unconsciously (e .g . class and race prejudice) VII. Limitations on teaching as affected by competence and relevance. Problems of preserving a boundary between discussion and advocacy. Might such an impracticality justify a curricular limitation? VIII. Distinctions of fact, ...
232. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... years old. Gravitational Force of the Sun by P. Spolter, 1993, $26.95. A biochemist enters the field of physics and overturns Newton's Law of Gravitation and Einstein's theories of Relativity. Her ideas are so radical that academic libraries have been warned not to buy the book. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Darwinism by M.J . Behe, 1996, $25 As the title suggests this is a new slant on the subject of evolution, indicating that more than Darwinistic mechanisms must be involved. The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy by Charles Officer and J. Page, 1996, $23.00 No, not another book about the CT ...
233. "Mankind in Amnesia": An Overview [Journals] [Kronos]
... and action. As with much of Velikovsky's work, the heuristic value here is paramount. A considerable portion of the text is devoted to the millennia-long conflict between uniformitarianism and catastrophism and the putative unconscious triumph of uniformity, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, in the minds of foundational philosophers, theologians, and scientific theorists of Western Civilization. Darwin particularly - with his profound influence on both biological and psychological science - seems to have misguided knowledge, himself the victim of the inexorable force of collective psychological repression despite the direct evidence for global cataclysm as early penned by his own hand. Other elements of the case for collective amnesia are generated from literary works where imagination runs toward uncanny ...
234. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... 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 time totalitarian systems perfected by Hitler and Stalin derived their ideological bases from appeals to scientific discoveries', 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 uncontrovertible authority for their actions the laws of nature which science was supposed to have established. And ...
235. Past, Present, and Future [Books] [de Grazia books]
... lost libraries of the world have been more heavily catastrophic than the typical work that has come down. The trials and tribulations of history have produced and perpetuated a kind of censorship on catastrophic thought. It is far different from, but perhaps more effective than, the deliberate attempts to suppress the uniformitarian ideas of evolution when these were advanced by Darwin, Huxley and their allies, and more effective too than the uniformitarian efforts to censor Velikovsky's catastrophism. Catastrophism flourished in the religious dogma of the world and still does. Certain doubtful exceptions are provided by a few primitive tribes, some modern versions of Christianity, periodic cultic manifestations largely of oriental character, materialistic "religions" such as ...
236. Ice And Tide. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... are found, too. The glaciers in the Alps served as observational material for deductions concerning the continental ice cover. However, alpine glaciers carry stones downhill, not uphill, and the general question was asked whether ice could carry rocks uphill.5 Erratic boulders are often found in places where continental ice could hardly have deposited them. Charles Darwin inquired and learned that erratics are found on the Azores, islands separated from the ice cover by a wide expanse of ocean. Cumming described erratics close to the summit of the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, where only waves could have lifted them.6 In Labrador boulders have been seen, rammed against the slopes of the ...
237. Earth In A Vice. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... axis; and the position of the moon close to the plane of the ecliptic suggests that the terrestrial axis suffered displacement. Also, if from the beginning there was a difference in the direction of the axes of terrestrial rotation and lunar revolution, this difference must have disappeared as the result of tidal friction. Jeffreys considered the works of George Darwin, who tried to explain the observed positions by recourse to several additional tidal frictions, but he found a flaw in Darwin's hypothesis. Any internal changes in the earth would be "not important" for the observed change in the direction of the terrestrial axis. Jeffreys says: "If we consider the axis of the earth's angular momentum ...
238. The Changing Orbit. Ch.8 Poles Displaced (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... around the geographical pole, or, better, of the wandering of the pole that causes small variations in latitudes, discovered late in the nineteenth century. A theory that employed the changes in eccentricity of the orbit and the precession of the equinoxes to explain the variations of climate was advanced in 1864 by James Croll, and accepted by Charles Darwin and others; it has since been abandoned, for it requires alternate glacial ages in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and the evidence contradicts such an order of events. More recently, M. Milankovitch introduced the third variable, the obliquity of the ecliptic, to correct some of the defects of Croll's theory. In the opinion of ...
239. Graincollection: Human's Natural Ecological Niche -- A Review [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... in behavioural direction. In this, they collectively contrast with the orthodox view, which pictures our evolution as steady and continuous, moving us directly from an arboreal to a terrestrial habitat while gradually increasing our control of natural forces. My feeling is that, although none of these hypotheses can be reconciled with the uniformism of Hutton, Lyell and Darwin, they can be fitted into a larger, quantalist paradigm. This paradigm would depict our ancestors as quadrupedal and arboreal fruit-eaters during the Miocene Epoch, as semi-aquatic waders and beachcombers during the Pliocene, and as grassland plant-gatherers during the Lower Pleistocene. During the interglacials of the Middle Pleistocene, they could have begun specialising m the intensive seed ...
240. A Proper Respect for Authority [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , but to try more of it: he writes Deg a few months later that he knows that he is speaking like a Cabot but would Deg support him in his efforts to bring the prestigious figure of Lord Bertrand Russell over to his side? V. was on a collision course with himself. He practiced on Aristotle, Newton and Darwin, numerous 19th century writers and then on current authorities, but impersonally and only with the slightest irony, in a situation calling for broad sarcasm. He thought of himself as an authority but did not realize that he was undermining present authorities and that they would react as authorities invariably do, by putting him down. But, then ...
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