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39 pages of results. 261. A Catastrophic Reading of Western Cosmology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... full and final knowledge about nature. The Newtonian Universe in all its mathematical certainty is the proof for this quasi-religion, so much so that the two have come to form virtually a single entity in the popular mind. In this fuzzy picture, the world somehow is Newton's equations, and that is how science since Merton (and perhaps since Darwin) has most often been seen. His creed, defined as the Mertonian Norms, has been taught as a catechism to generations of science students and is lavishly and slavishly echoed by such simplistic popularisers of science as Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan, who believe it as holy writ. Merton is therefore the unofficial philosopher of popular science ( ...
262. The Empire Strikes Back [Books] [de Grazia books]
... scientific language covering so broad an area. Of course, we would lose much in clarity and orderly communication if our students were to adopt it in all manner of writing. Velikovsky sees prehistory and protohistory as frequented by stupendous natural catastrophes that call into question the stability of the solar system over long time periods, and therefore the gradualism of darwinism in biology. His evidence is limited and fragmentary, much of it anomalies that puzzle historians both human and natural. Most of his evidence must, and does also, serve conventional approaches, our received knowledge, although he insists upon viewing it as catastrophic. His most radical hypotheses, which he expresses far too confidently, propose drastic ...
263. Forum: In Defence of the Saturn Theory C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is quite easy. If the former is deemed more likely, then the mythological carpet is pulled out from underneath the Saturnists. ' [34] This argument is every bit as baseless as his others. Since when has ease of conception been the ultimate arbiter of truth in scientific matters? Doubtless it is easier to believe, with Charles Darwin, that two gametes, upon joining together in the act of sexual reproduction, act so as to blend their respective genetic factors. This simple process stands in dramatic contrast to the process outlined by Watson and Crick, whereby a complex helical structure of DNA magically unfolds and joins together again while generally maintaining stable genetic factors (and thus ...
264. Velikovsky and the Apparatus of Scholarship [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of continuing support and investigation. But this must be scholarly and scientific support and investigation, buttressed by rigid objectivity and scientific scholarship. What I am insisting is that Dr Velikovsky, who was undoubtedly a brilliant man, suffered from the same limitations as did all brilliant men before him - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, etc., namely human fallibility. Now I realize that many of you must be thinking that Velikovsky denied any infallibility in the introduction to Ages in Chaos. Yes, indeed he did. And his supporters too are quick to say that "of course Velikovsky made mistakes". But in dealing with Velikovsky personally and ...
265. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . evidence that royal Egyptian monuments stood here as late as the second half of the 10th century BC comes as a complete surprise - and one that is very difficult to explain. ' R. M. Porter, London SE5 Catastrophic Periods of Mutation Questioned Dear Sir, I agree with much that Jill Abery says in her excellent article Punctuated Darwinism? ' (Workshop 1989:1 , pp. 17-19). Increasingly, it does seem that the characteristic pattern of the fossil record is of mass extinctions followed by explosions of new types and then periods of relative stability. However, to my mind, it is unnecessary to postulate that different evolutionary mechanisms operate during the different phases ...
266. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... atmosphere, where tiny water droplets apparently contain large amounts of organic matter. One team is convinced that life exists in crustal rocks, where water, circulating as a result of lunar tidal movements of the crust, would carry dissolved chemical nutrients. It seems that life is in every conceivable place and can withstand the most extreme of conditions. Darwinism Topples with the Tree of Life Science Frontiers 129, May-June 00, p. 3, Scientific American Feb. 00, pp. 72-77 More scientists are realising that hard core neo-Darwinism does not explain evolution. Professor Shapiro, of the University of Chicago, declares that it is now time for the Darwinists to abandon their posture of outraged ...
267. Nova of Super Uranus and Ejection of the Moon [Books] [de Grazia books]
... one-fiftieth of the Earth's volume, is left behind in the space near Earth. For a time some of it fell back upon the Earth as stone and dust. The rest, partly molten, was assembled by electrical pressure into a rapidly cooling globule. The form of fission of a body in such a manner was foreseen by G. Darwin and Fisher; later Baker (1954, p20) constructed a simple instrument depicting the process: his drawing of the critical stage of the fission is reproduced in Figure 31. Figure 30. Fragmentation of Super Uranus In schematic form the relocation of Uranus Minor is shown after its explosive ejection from the solar companion, which to that moment ...
268. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 14, Feb 1984 Stephen J. Gould is often a controversial but always a stimulating figure in the world of evolutionary debate (see WORKSHOP 3:4 , pp.18-19, and 4:4 , pp.17-18). He also appears to be something of a mental gymnast in the neo-Darwinian circus. In his book EVER SINCE DARWIN he jumped nimbly with a foot on two separate bandwagons; the current geological paradigm of plate tectonics was used as ammunition for the popular pastime of Velikovsky-baiting (see SIS REVIEW IV:I , pp.4-5). Velikovsky's examples of cosmic catastrophes were dismissed by Gould, his geological evidence was put down to the consequences of continental drift ...
269. Loess [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... out by A. d'Orbigny. "The bones again are only found isolated in the lower strata, while entire animals occur on the circumference or the upper part of the basin. "Thus, they are very rare at Buenos Aires, while they abound in the Banda Oriental and in the White Bay .. .. "He [Darwin] found the greatest number of the remains at Bahia Blanca, at Bajada, also on the coast and on effluents of the Rio Negro, also at the outlet of the valley. This proves that the animals were floated and hence, were chiefly carried to the coast. The hypothesis necessitates that the Pampas mud was deposited as the ...
... . The argument used by Velikovsky on this point is typical of arguments that he frequently makes. He points to something that is not yet fully explained and then claims this as evidence that it is not explainab/e (or says "unexplainable" when he ought to say "unexplained"); therefore Newton, or Einstein, or Darwin, for example, was wrong. But there is no such "scientific establishment" that claims everything to be already understood. To overturn existing theory, one must adduce facts 1 i8 Beyond Velikovsky that contradict that theory, not merely point to facts that have not yet yielded to detailed explication. The same objection applies to Velikovsky's " ...
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