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39 pages of results. 61. Scientific Prehistory [Books]
... , simpler, or worse, to a higher, more complex or better state" (Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary). The word `evolution' might be considered to have a general meaning, but today it implies "organic evolution", and one must be more specific if speaking otherwise. This bespeaks the great success of Charles Darwin, the author of "organic evolution". In this sense evolution is the theory that all life on earth developed spontaneously (in direct opposition to `times arrow', the law of entropy) from a primitive form of life, the primeval "one-celled animal", the doctrine taught in the biology, geology, and related ...
62. Peripheral Vision Publications Presents [Journals] [Aeon]
... [ 's] disclosures on certain subjects have won him a place in the pages of [the] newly reconstructed science [of global catastrophism]... he has turned quite a few stones- and uncovered the odd surprise to boot." Dwardu Cardona: Editor- AEON. The core of the industrial world's twentieth-century worldview is Darwinism- as in Charles Darwin. No matter whether you're being entertained by Jurassic Park or being educated by National Geographic and Time-Life or fighting the school board over the use of a particular high school science textbook, Darwinism is the common denominator. Moreover, whatever code of ethics you choose to follow, it is a subset of your worldview ...
63. Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , then there could not have been any large-scale catastrophes. All the findings in the rocks could be explained on the basis of known processes, provided these were given long enough in which to act. So the uniformitarian position required the Earth to be very old, to enable changes to take place by gradual rather than catastrophic means. Charles Darwin, under the influence of Lyell and against the advice of Thomas Huxley, chose to link his ideas on evolution by natural selection to a gradualistic model [19]. Again, a great deal of time was required for major changes to take place in a species as a result of the accumulation of small changes over many generations. ...
64. The Science of Evolution (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... of biological evolution as a proven scientific theory at public expense are likely to be making their influence felt more strongly in future editions of such books. Stansfield does not acknowledge any pressure from the California State Board of Education, but he does discuss its 1969 guidelines on science teaching. What he does not even mention are the detailed attacks on Darwinism by European biologists. Quite characteristic of the American tradition of evolutionary biology is its studied ignoring of European work when it runs counter to uniformitarianism and Darwinism. Before examining Stansfield's very American conception of the science of evolution, let us sample the sort of professional thinking on the subject that is filtered out for the protection of American students. ...
65. Homo Schizo Meets God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... intellectuals in the world) he said enthusiastically that he had studied with Merriam like Aristotle at the feet of Plato' and then was ribbed by friends and poignantly embarrassed, so that as you see, even now he can remember to tell me about it. Therefore it is no surprise that thirty five years later he can be treating Charles Darwin and everyone else familiarly, even arrogantly, "What is your opinion of Darwin?" was, of course, the question. The tape spun; Deg picked up his notes and spoke at the machine: Charles Darwin was an apt hero for nineteenth century biology and the public and scientific mentalities of the nineteenth century. He came ...
66. In Search Of A Publisher. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... From "Stargazers and Gravediggers" © 1983 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents In Search Of A Publisher IN JUNE 1946 I started to make the rounds of the publishers with the manuscript of Worlds in Collision. The first I offered it to was Appleton-Century. In my memory was the fact that Appleton was the original publisher of Darwin in America, and I thought that this fact spoke for the vision of this publisher in the past. I saw only the lady receptionist. Not very long afterward I received a letter in which the editor advised me that my book would not fit into its program, but he thought that Macmillan, which has a very large list ...
67. The Great Debate [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... law. As it happened, a close friend and disciple of Lyell's was responsible for carrying the doctrine of uniformity into the field of biology. The friend, who dedicated his Journal to Lyell, is more responsible for the widespread acceptance of the doctrine of uniformitarianism in the scientific community than any other person in history. His name was Charles Darwin. Herbert Spencer and Alfred R. Wallace each independently came to the same conclusion as Darwin (the phrase "survival of the fittest" belongs to Spencer), but it was Darwin who became the most influential. In 1859 Darwin published The Origin of the Species, in which he proposed his idea of organic evolution through a slow ...
68. Palaeontology and Evolution [Books]
... . F. (Georges) Cuvier (1769 -1832). Cuvier believed that species remained static; therefore his theory is sometimes called that of fixity of species'. He postulated that successive catastrophes destroyed all life and that new species were then created. This theory was in great favour till about the middle of the nineteenth century, when Darwin produced his work on `natural selection'. W. Smith was a believer in catastrophism. (b ) In 1859 Darwin (1809 - 92) published a book The Origin of Species which, based on Lyell's ideas of slow geological evolution or uniformitarianism' and Malthus's theories on the struggle for existence, claim that all species derive ...
... INTRODUCTION PART I Discussing the reception of the scientific community to Darwin's Origin of Species, Thomas Huxley wrote, It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the angry outpouring of angry nonsenses to which it gave rise is sad to think upon. But the present generation will probably behave just as badly if another Darwin should arise, and inflict upon them what the generality of mankind most hate- the necessity of revising their convictions. ' Thomas Huxley cited by Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers, (1985), p. 476 Only later, when the Quarterly Review article appeared and his friends had persuaded him that [St. George] ...
70. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... catastrophe. To support his arguments, Velikovsky delves into the history of science to show how the prevailing belief in past catastrophes, accepted by Plato, was overturned by the rigidly mechanistic Aristotelian system, which denied their possibility. Similarly, the geological catastrophist school of Buckland and Cuvier, that dominated the early 19th century, was swept aside by Darwin and Lyell, the founders of evolutionary science. Yet Darwin, on his famous Galapagos expedition, saw for himself the evidence for massive, sudden faunal extinction, and noted in his journal, "The mind at first is hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe, but thus to destroy animals, both large and small .. ...
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