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35 pages of results. 231. James Hutton: A Non-inductive, Theological Catastrophist [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... that environments are changing from terrestrial to marine, we do not usually find an insensibly graded series of strata, indicating by grain size and faunal content that lakes and streams have given way to oceans of increasing depth. In most cases, fully marine strata lie directly atop terrestrial beds, with no signs of smooth transition. The world of dinosaurs does not yield gradually to the realm of mammals; instead, dinosaurs disappear from the record in apparent concert with about half the species of marine organisms in one of the five major mass extinctions of life's history. (11) Gould's statement is merely a subdued echo of what the19th century catastrophists had documented again and again. Velikovsky presented ...
232. Ever Since Darwin: A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... been a "catastrophic event", in the words of two geophysicists in the forefront of drift theory,(3 ) to initiate Pangaea's break-up, would Gould like to provide convincing explanations in terms of continental drift, without invoking catastrophes (and on one side of the paper only), of: (a ) The disappearance of the dinosaurs (who inhabited every continent except for Antarctica, and had already thrived on land and in air for some 120 million years of continental drift) at the end of the Cretaceous, accompanied by the marine ichthyosaurs, mososaurs, ammonites, some species of flowering plants and a wide variety of other creatures; (b ) the disappearance of ...
233. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ]. At the end of the Cretaceous Period, sea-levels fell markedly, draining the shallow epicontinental seas. That was the time of the famous K-T event', when a asteroid or comet around 10 km in diameter struck Mexico, a million cubic kilometres of lava poured out over central India and many species of animals, including all the dinosaurs, became extinct. Apart from another wave of extinctions during the Eocene-Oligocene transition around 35 million years ago, when sea levels were again very low, it is generally thought that the next major crisis was a series of Ice Ages which spanned the Pleistocene Epoch, beginning around 2 million years ago and ending around 11,500 years ago ...
234. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... sense, extinction is not explained by the prevalent Darwinian theory of environmental unfitness, since the only evidence for that unfitness is the extinction itself. In a specific sense, moreover (as applied to particular taxa), extinction is not merely unexplained but paradoxical, since some groups- of which the best known are the saurischia, or large dinosaurs- seem not merely to have survived but to have flourished immediately before their geologically sudden disappearance.(4 ) A good example of a social science anomaly is the archaic megalithic complex, of which the best known specimen is probably the great stone circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. In an apparent effort to contain (since they ...
235. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... Energy in the natural world is scrupulously accounted for, so to support a monkey species twice as heavy as any living species, the environment at the time this animal was alive had to be quite different from what it is today." If that is so, how much more of an indicator to a different environment would be the sauropod dinosaurs discovered in the Gobi, which dwarf brontosaurus, once believed to be the heavyweight-champion among dinosaurs? Tania ta Maria References 1. See, D. Cardona, "The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-Historical Record," AEON IV:4 (April 1996), pp. 13 ff. 2. Not according to his published model ...
236. Long Term Violation of Uniformitarianism Demonstrated by Fossil Discoveries in Polar Regions [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... will be offered shortly for your titillation.] Evidence of warmer climates that once prevailed in the Arctic was brought to light in the nineteenth century with the discovery of coal in the Canadian Arctic Archipeliga. Some time later, remains of tropical vegetation were found in far northern Greenland which oddly has never been glaciated. In the early 1970's, dinosaur fossils were uncovered on the North Slope of Alaska. Paleolatitude of the north coastal plain of Alaska in late Cretaceous time 70 MYA was several degrees to the north of today's latitude. Dr. Basinger, in his spring 1987 Ottowa lecture, referred to mid-Miocene walnut shells found on Banks Island (situated north of the Mackenzie Delta), ...
237. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: A Critique [Journals] [Aeon]
... itself out of the head of some Zeus? Such questions, and subsequently sought for answers, are often philosophically impenetrable. Dennett attempts several answers, which of course is the prerogative of a philosopher, and naturally given him the excuse to write his book on the meanings of life. Yangchuanosaurus. ". .. by what means were dinosaur footprints imbedded in rock formations?" (Illustration by Bob Giuliani.) In Design Space, we are introduced to "cranes" that carry one idea, or representation, toward the construction of another. (In this context, "derricks" would have been a better word choice, if nothing more than to differentiate it from ...
238. Antiquated Textbooks: Redesigning the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Even so, the sudden interest in cosmic catastrophism among establishment science was not influenced by the work of Clube, Napier, Velikovsky, or any of their predecessors in the field, but was largely due to the insights derived from three separate events- one ancient, the other two recent. The ancient event concerns the demise of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period (the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, actually) due to the terrestrial impact of a celestial body, which was first proposed by Laubenfels in 1956, [89] twenty four years before the team headed by Luis Alvarez stole the credit for the hypothesis. At first described as "a nutty theory of pseudoscientists ...
239. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... [52] 7. Why do the northern territories of Canada and Greenland, which straddle the same high latitudes as Siberia and Alaska, and which annually experience comparable winter snowfalls and summer thaws, not host similar low' permafrost temperatures? It seems somewhat bizarre that expert opinion confidently informs the public what catastrophe probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago but is unable to provide acceptable answers and explanations for a comparable catastrophe which, according to C14 dating, happened geologically very recently, in geological parlance just yesterday'. It should also be emphasised that geologically and botanically the dinosaur extinction' datum compares favourably with the similar one (Pleistocene/Holocene) under discussion ...
240. Anomalistics - a New Field of Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... sense, extinction is not explained by the prevalent Darwinian theory of environmental unfitness, since the only evidence for that unfitness is the extinction itself. In a specific sense, moreover (as applied to particular taxa), extinction is not merely unexplained but paradoxical, since some groups - of which the best known are the saurischia, or large dinosaurs - seem not merely to have survived but to have flourished immediately before their geologically sudden disappearance.4 A good example of a social science anomaly is the archaic megalithic complex, of which the best known specimen is probably the great stone circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. In an apparent effort to contain (since they cannot eliminate ...
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