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59 pages of results. 291. First Dynasty - pre-Flood or post-Flood [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... was prehistoric in nature. In my opinion, there are two ways to approach the Flood-traditions. One can explore the various geological strata for evidence of a universal flood. Here all attempts have failed to find any evidence for a flood of the magnitude of the Biblical and Sumerian accounts. Secondly, one can compare the various traditions of a deluge from different cultures around the world. This is the approach I have taken. That there was a catastrophic event remembered as the "Great Flood", witnessed by various peoples around the globe, I have no doubt. How to understand those events is the another question entirely and still under investigation. As it turns out, I ...
292. The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues [Journals] [Kronos]
... : 1-9 1. Introduction Unlike the worldwide prolificacy of flood traditions, extant legends of the Confusion of Tongues, such as is recorded in the Biblical tale of the Tower of Babel, are much fewer in number. Moreover, the skeptic might still discern a kernel of truth in the flood legends even if the idea of an actual global deluge is rejected. Stories of the Confusion of Tongues, on the other hand, are more easily relegated to the realm of fairy tales. Even so, their widespread, if spotty, distribution begs an "historical" explanation that precludes their having resulted through diffusion from a single source. Furthermore, an analysis of some of these stories ...
293. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . It is founded upon a simple belief that the planets were all formed at about the same time and have remained for billions of years in their present orbits. It was inevitable that chapters of the Earth's story would be translated to Mars. The result is a succession of hypothetical Martian "ages" including a "Noachian" age of deluge. And remember that this is a story about a frozen desert planet! One of the most highly developed capabilities of the human mind is to concoct stories. Equally, we have a strong desire to be told stories and to believe them. If we believe a story to be true we have a strong tendency to accept confirming evidence ...
294. From the Editor [Journals] [Pensee]
... to the most rigorous checking and cross-checking procedure possible. Two of these volumes are now near publication: Rameses II and His Time and Peoples of the Sea, - - the former may come out this summer and the latter shortly thereafter. None of the other works Velikovsky has been preparing, including Mankind in Amnesia and the story of the Deluge, are currently scheduled for publication. So far, all his books have been published by Doubleday and Company, New York. Pensée and the Future Pensée, as our readers will begin to note, must yield to a certain logical development. With the increasing "legitimization" of Velikovsky's work, there is less necessity to present the ...
295. Discussion Comments From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... theories of the isolated evolution of the Earth, while it is consistent with the hypothesis that the Earth was once a satellite of a gas giant. I have suggested, in concert with Talbott, that this evidence logically points to an eons long era prior to the (much shorter) period of the polar configuration. 2. If the Deluge involved a descent of extraterrestrial water, one could reasonably assume that the process began with the arrival of a mixed mist of ice crystals of H2O, CH4 and H2. The H2 likely would have burned at the tropopause and at far less than lethal temperatures at ground level. According to many legends, the rains fell for weeks to ...
296. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... strangest part of this story is that Peter James, one of Velikovsky's earliest followers, while dismissing his one-time mentor's model as one of the most extreme catastrophist models of all time', and pronouncing it redundant, urges us to heed Plato's far from eccentric' - but just as extreme - view of a universe in which the myths of deluges and conflagrations reflect the repeated interruptions of history by massive sky-born disasters. Velikovsky was in good company. As those who have renounced him may one day discover, to have one's name bracketed with his does not, as Rohl complained, carry a stigma. It is an honour and a pleasure. Nieves Mathews, Montanare di Cortona, ...
297. The Establishment of Gradualism [Books]
... insisted that new creation was not necessary to explain repopulation of a particular area, because `new' animals could have been living in a part of the world unaffected by the revolution, migrating from it to take the place of those now extinct. For this reason, Cuvier refused to support these who identified the last revolution with the universal deluge of the bible" [10: p. 117]. In much the same vein, Hallam wrote: "Though officially Christian, like virtually all his scientific contemporaries, Cuvier showed no published interest in attempting to reconcile the geological record with Genesis, let alone to invoke supernatural causes for his catastrophes; the principal focus of his ...
298. The Mysterious Comet by Comyns Beaumont [Books]
... incorporated later into Christianity but now lost sight of, should study the Apocalypse of St. John, which is no mere visionary moral lesson but descriptive of the destruction of much of the earth; the fourth book of Esdras also is unmistakable in its doctrines, also especially the Book of Enoch, which describes the whole modus operandi of the Deluge, and other akin works are the Popol Vuh, the sacred Book of the Quiches of Guatemala, A comet, full of mystery as it passes a beautiful vision across the heavens, I shall show, is no other than a planet hurtling to destruction. It is a world which for one reason or another has been thrown out ...
299. Asimov's Guide to the Velikovsky Affair [Journals] [Kronos]
... , it was precisely Macmillan's publication of the book in defiance of hints of retaliation from Shapley and his henchmen that triggered the boycott of the firm's textbooks and the campaign to smear Velikovsky. According to Asimovian history, Doubleday felt no pressure when it took over the publication rights to Worlds in Collision. In fact, however, it was immediately deluged with letters of protest. George B. Cressey, a geologist at Syracuse University warned: "You may make some money by adding this title to your list, but you surely impair your reputation with the informed public." David C. Grahame, associate professor of chemistry at Amherst College, was more explicit: "Scientists are ...
300. Conclusion [Books]
... the Saturnian drama. In these pages I have sought only to demonstrate the reality of Saturn's polar configuration, reserving discussion of the ultimate calamity for the subsequent volume. Saturn's death or fall, we will discover, constituted the prototypal catastrophe, recounted by the ancients in numerous forms and elaborations. The collapse of the celestial kingdom; the world-destroying deluge; the battle with the serpent-dragon of the deep; the birth of Jupiter; the Child-Hero; the resurrection and transformation of Saturn; and Saturn's eventual departure to the distant realm- these are key elements in a story of incalculable impact on ancient imagination. But to decipher the myths of the great catastrophe one must have clearly in mind ...
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