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39 pages of results. 271. Minds in Chaos [Books] [de Grazia books]
... tundra, prairie, and tropical rainforest intimately associated in jumbled heaps and interred in common graves; the startling youth of the world's great mountain chains; shifted poles; reversed magnetic polarities; sudden changes in sea level all around the world; rifts on land and under the seas. Then Velikovsky took up the question of evolution, arguing that Darwin had rejected catastrophism in favour of Lyell's uniformity because the catastrophists of his day would not acknowledge the antiquity of the earth. But in reality catastrophes suggest the only plausible mechanisms for the phenomenon of evolution by mutation. Thus Darwin's contribution to the theory of evolution, which dates from Greek times, consisted only in the as-yet undemonstrated hypothesis that ...
272. 'No Impact': René Gallant (1906-1985) [Books]
... problem remains, and is the major reason why such impactological' research has found so few adherents in Britain. In the United States the subject has helped to generate new attitudes to such multidisciplinary research [88] . In Britain "efforts at cross-disciplinary communication often sadly amount to forlorn attempts at popularisation", as the introduction to the 1990 Darwin College (Cambridge, UK) lectures on "Understanding Catastrophe" note [89] . The contrast between cross-disciplinary communication in Britain with that seen so well at recent United States Snowbird conferences is notable. While one of these latter was being held there in October 1988, the British were duly organising their own responses, but as two ...
273. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , to date nobody has yet been able to "marry" the other two fundamental forces of nature, which are the force of gravity and the strong nuclear force (which binds atoms). Death Knell of Natural Selection?source: Nature Vol. 302, 3.3 .83, pp. 16-7 Was the flag-waving centennial for Darwin really the convulsive dying throes of the theory of evolution by natural selection? Are the rantings of such as Halstead (see Workshop 3:2 , p. 20; 3:3 , p. 10 and 3:4 , p. 13) and Ruse (see Workshop 5:1 , p. 5) merely death ...
274. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... fixed' Sothic date for Sesostris III, the anchor point of chronology. Yet for three-quarters of a century, myths have been perpetuated, while the foundations have hardly ever been questioned. We have moved from the position of Bishop Ussher, who stated that the world was created in 4004 B.C ., and the rabid opponents of Darwin into yet another ossified situation where no one has had the courage to point out that the king has no clothes on' . . . How can scholars' postulate a Bronze Age without the slightest investigation into the occurrence of tin and other minerals? . . . Today we do not burn Savoranola and Huss at the stake, we ...
275. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and merely as one of the halt leading the blind, ' I would suggest that scientists and scholars repair to the philosophical foundations of science and humanism upon which the disciplinary structures rest; upon reading and reviewing Plato, Hegel, Dewey, Bridgman and the like, and understanding the critical decisions of Galileo, Newton, Marx-Engels, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Einstein and the like, they may prepare new footings and erect new structures. The history of science and natural history are composed of psycho-social-empirical problems, inextricably intertwined, approachable by a science that is neither hard' nor soft, ' but malleable. If few persons can master learning of such scope and depth, does ...
276. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... by those who alone are qualified to do so" (p . 324) does not begin to come to grips with the fact, illustrated by Worlds in Collision, that experts disagree. Fads and Fallacies has not been subjected to much scrutiny over the years, but one existing analysis is socko. Norman Macbeth, attorney and author of Darwin Retried, wrote a critique in 1962 which circulated privately in typewritten form (Macbeth to Doubleday & Co., April 19, 1962) and finally appeared in the Journal of Anthroposophy (Spring 1965), pp. 14-16. Examples of ten objectionable practices by Gardner are documented: use of bad sources, character assassination, the quick ...
277. The Catastrophic Substructure of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... appears to be succumbing, and so Banquo warns him But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray'sv In deepest consequence. Macbeth, I .3 . 122-126 . Perhaps it is the same, for example, with Newton and Darwin, whose descriptions of the cosmos and life respectively appear to explain all, but may in fact only explain enough to keep us from suspecting there is anything more, winning us with trifles while betraying us indeed where the consequences are deepest. The pictures these men paint have a very pacifying effect. They tell us that the universe runs ...
278. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... . He did not mind the catastrophes being described, but he would have preferred their agent- the protoplanet Venus- not to be identified. From his point of view he was undoubtedly correct; he well understood that most of us can digest only so much unorthodoxy at one swallow (I was reminded of H. L. Mencken's remark that if Darwin had published The Origin of Species chapter by chapter in obscure journals, he would have been archbishop of Canterbury by the time he finished). But I was necessarily aware, from my point of view, that having read the entire book, I could not very well omit any of the most important elements of it and that, ...
279. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that "substantial structures can exist unknown at Stonehenge is important to those who seek alignments or patterns in the locations of neolithic features." EVOLUTION IN JUMPS - THE SUNDAY TIMES 8/3 /81, p.13 Jill Abery has reported this excellent general article by Bryan Silcock which appeared under a title "The new clues that challenge Darwin." For the best part the article concerns itself with facts and new evidence that Darwinism is unable to explain. Striking amongst these is the idea of "stasis" or non-evolution for the most part of a species' existence on Earth: also there is the idea of evolution in jumps which goes hand in glove with stasis. ...
280. The Velikovskian Upheaval: A Temporocentric Challenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... sudden outburst raises the spectrum of religion which, in turn, revives the epic when the forbearers of scientific inquiry struggled against the religious hierarchy. For the theory of evolution, with its doctrine of uniformity, to win out over its religious antagonists it was necessary to assault the theory of catastrophe that commanded scientific thought at the time of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, co-founders of evolutionary theory. "The uniformitarian school," Eiseley (Ibid.: 114; emphasis supplied) informs us, ". . . is essentially a revolt against the Christian conception of time as limited and containing historic direction, with supernatural intervention constantly imminent." Cataclysmic interpretations lend support to religious ...
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