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39 pages of results. 321. Comments [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... of the doctrine of uniformitarianism inspired by Cuvier's revolutions du globe'. One wonders whether Catastrophist Geology, dedicated to the study of discontinuities in Earth h-istory' tends to emphasize the consequences of catastrophism as opposed to uniformitarianism, rather than placing catastrophic events in their proper perspective, i.e . as the result of natural, uniformitarian causes. Darwin already was perfectly aware of the occurrence of hiatuses in the stratigraphic record. Perhaps he even overemphasized their importance, which did not prevent him from being among the earliest adherents of Lyell's uniformitarianism. A.Brouwer Geologisch Instituut University of Leiden Nederland References to professor Brouwer's comments, p.7-8 : Ager, D.V . - 1973 ...
322. Were All Dinosaurs Reptiles? [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the extinction of the dinosaurs was coincident with the world-wide Laramide revolution."(9 ) It should be very simple to imagine that the same catastrophe killed the dinosaurs. Cataclysms are not barred from Geology but they are regarded as slow processes; as a factor in biology, real cataclysms and revolutions have been disqualified since the theory of Darwin about slow adaptations and evolutions became the standard view. Therefore the Laramide revolution folded the Earth's crust and uplifted mountains, but did not affect the life of the dinosaurs, and the cause of their extinction is still being sought.(10) The beginning of the antediluvian world of beasts may well have been hundreds of thousands, or ...
323. Pterodactyls in the Mesozoic: A Flap in Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... formations, mainly because little or nothing was known of geographical outlines of the under-ocean continental shelves or of the mid-Atlantic rift, and even less about magma movement within the Earth itself. It's been speculated that during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic Eras, the Earth was rotating much more rapidly on its axis than it is at present. George Darwin, son of the illustrious Charles, had this happy thought over a century ago. This rapid rotation would have the effect of collecting landmasses of a lighter specific gravity than the underlying magma into a single somewhat equatorial Pangaean continent, if not distributing the continent along the equatorial belt due to centrifugal forces. In effect, the continents are ...
324. The Problem Of The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... or sudden plate tectonic movement? One of the great enigmas of modern science is that of the extinction of the megafauna, or giant-sized animals, along with some smaller genera and several species of birds that are placed conventionally at the close of the Pleistocene/Ice Age 11,000 years ago. As Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-inventor with Darwin of the more acceptable form of evolution understood in the last century: "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which the largest and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared; and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now that they are gone. Yet it is surely a marvelous fact, ...
325. The Prophecy In Paleontology [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... verb is "yeetzer",3 which can mean both "he made" or "he had made", there being no distinction in Hebrew.4 The assumption that the biblical creation story is mythical in character feeds the feeling that the Bible and science contradict each other. The controversy over this issue has raged from the days of Darwin to the present. Thus many Christians have grown leery of science as contradicting God's word, while scientists have waxed impatient with any attempts to view the Bible story as anything but fanciful literature. Yet there is a striking similarity between the account presented by paleontology and that given in Genesis. This observation has been made in the day-age theory ...
326. The Scars of Mars Part I [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... body would precede impact. Further, Roche stated that the critical distance of fragmentation is 2.44 radii from the center of the larger body. He assumed both bodies to have identical densities and circular orbits. In fact, circular orbits do not exist in nature, and densities of planets do vary; none are identical. Sir George Darwin later refined Roche's study, offering 2.4554 as the critical distance of fragmentation. More recently, Loren-Steinhauer researched this issue and came to the conclusion that a distance of 2.45 is conservative, and that a figure of 2.5 to 2~6 radii is more likely. [4 ] Although we do not have ...
327. Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery [Journals] [Kronos]
... they can see Boeing 747's spread their contrails far above the places of sacrifice, seemingly oblivious to the prayers of their worshippers, but nonetheless real. The World Council of Churches does not today lose much sleep over the events preceding the Day of Judgment, yet worries indeed over the application of the social gospel because the union of Marxism, Darwinism, and an entropic universe dictates that man's salvation lies here on Earth rather than elsewhere. In the same way, did not the Elizabethans fear the nearness of the end because the Biblical descriptions of the "signs" tallied with a series of actual physical events spread over a period of years and reaching a hitherto unparalleled intensity in Shakespeare's ...
328. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... him into a discussion of Darwinian views on the origin of sexuality, including the possibility of an accidental conjugation of two one-celled organisms that "was retained and further exploited in later development" (56); but he concludes that this sort of speculation "is of little help for our purposes" (57). Freud then turns from Darwin to Plato (57-58): "Apart from this, science has so little to tell us about the origin of sexuality that we can liken the problem to a darkness into which not so much as a ray of hypothesis has penetrated. In quite a different region, it is true, we do meet with such a hypothesis; ...
329. The AAAS Is Alerted To Act. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... the hypothesis aware of the theory he proposes to supersede?" Applying this test to me, he found: "In one sense Velikovsky is clearly aware of the laws he proposes to replace, and prepared to quote names, dates, and page numbers without end," yet "he does not understand Newton's law," and "Darwin fails to receive more than a few passing mentions in his book." (This is a sign of heresy.) Test 2: "Is the new hypothesis in accord with currently held theories in the field of the hypothesis, or, if not, is there adequate reason for making the changes... ?" Applying ...
330. Thrusting and Orogeny [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . The alpine massif smothered the long rift that once cut through the "Adriatic Sea" and "Rhine River Valley." Or the American cordillera, thousands of kilometers long, stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego; there mountain uplifts amounting to thousands of meters have occurred, it is agreed by a range of authors from C. Darwin to I. Velikovsky, in absolutely modern times. The Sierra Nevadas of California are a single block, a thousand kilometers long, thrust up westwards. The Himalayas rose steeply in human times. "The highest mountains in the world are also the youngest," wrote Helm and Gausser [3 ]. But the Himalayas are also ...
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