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35 pages of results. 291. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... it is argued that various species took some millions of years to become extinct at the boundary, and this case is based upon the depth of "sediments" at the boundary. We have already had our say on this method (see Workshop 4:2 , p. 23) but we wonder how uniformitarian geologists would date a large dinosaur bone embedded in several metres of sediment. Would they, by any chance, date one end of the bone several thousand years earlier than the other? As to the iridium "spike", four out of six locations showed a marked spiking of iridium concentration and the other two (deep-sea cores) showed distribution over some 60 cm ...
292. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... that catastrophes generating or accompanied by radiation could cause mutations in a way gradual Darwinian evolution could not. Recent writing on evolution- such as Steven M. Stanley's The New Evolutionary Timetable (1981) - - emphasizes the myriad species over millions of years that have experienced no evolutionary change whatever; the mass extinctions which repeatedly overcame species, like the dinosaurs, that were wholly "successful" in the Darwinian struggle to survive; and the species, like our own, that emerged abruptly (and quite recently) with all our characteristics intact. Stanley calls the model currently accepted by paleobiologists of his persuasion one of "punctuational" evolution. What might have done the punctuating is what Velikovsky ...
293. Scientific Prehistory [Books]
... 10,000 years ago and exhibit a gradually rising (average) temperature thereafter would surely thaw out even a massive woolly mammoth exposed at the surface". He goes on to draw attention to the fact that in Alberta and Saskatchewan "for all practical purposes the mastodon discoveries in these regions involved effectively the same level of stratification as the dinosaur discoveries': Evolution When it comes to the origins and nature of life, Cook provides more food for thought: a) Material balance requires respiration processes in the animal kingdom to be occurring in total and at all times almost precisely the same rate as the opposing photosynthesis processes in the plant kingdom, otherwise one of these complementary processes ...
... . R. Tayler: `The birth of elements', New Scientist 16 December, 1989, pp. 25-29. 83. K. D. Terry and W. H. Tucker: `Biological effects of supernovae', Science 159 (1968), pp. 421-423. 84. A. J. Desmond: The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (Blond and Briggs, London, 1975). 85. G. C. Reid, J. R. McAfee and P. J. Crutzen: `Effects of intense stratospheric ionisation events', Nature 275 (1978), pp. 489-492. 86. I. Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision (Gollancz, London, ...
... played significant roles. The suggestion has been made that there is a periodicity in mass extinctions, and various mechanisms have been proposed which could bring a cluster of comets into the inner Solar System at regular intervals, but none of these has found general acceptance. Nevertheless, one thing that is now firmly established is that the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period cleared the way for the emergence of mammals, and eventually of ourselves. Chapter 5 looks in detail at the evolution of humankind, and finds that it was an erratic and unpredictable process. Although `molecular clocks' do not keep perfect time, their development has stimulated a re-assessment of fossil evidence ...
296. Introduction (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... gone even further in that direction. Semioticians, structuralists, and hermeneuticians have all concentrated upon the overriding importance of understanding texts and artifacts in very literal ways in order to gain genuine insight into human affairs. Scientifically orthodox advocates of "punctuated equilibrium" within the evolutionary process and of cometary causes of terrestrial life and of the extinction of the dinosaurs have gained a large measure of acceptance from their more uniformitarian-minded peers. Astronomers who have studied cosmic electromagnetism and geologists who have investigated anomalous earth formations have quietly pursued their research with no more than the usual academic cavil. Merely by dropping one of the zeros from Plato's date for the destruction of Atlantis, serious investigators have been allowed to ...
297. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . 3. Gradualism under Challenge 3.1 From catastrophism to neocatastrophism 3.2 Eustasy, impacts and mass extinctions 3.3 Phyletic gradualism and quantum evolution 3.4 Punctuated equilibrium and species selection 3.5 Gould's view of life. 4. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? 4.1 Iridium, tektites and the death of the dinosaurs 4.2 Conflicting views about the K-T transition 4.3 A periodicity in extinctions? 4.4 Current views on mass extinctions. 5. The Erratic Descent of Man 5.1 Early views on human evolution 5.2 The molecular revolution 5.3 Early hominoids 5.4 Hominids 5.5 Arguments over patterns in ...
298. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Grubaugh's model, Venus originated from Saturn in the vicinity of the present day asteroid belt. In Thornhill's model Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, bunches of moons and probably asteroids, too, did come from outside the solar system in one clump sometime in the recent past (over a similar range of time as since the dinosaurs). [Rob again] All of this goes to show that comets have MUCH more eccentric orbits than planets and are moving much faster than planets when they reach the inner solar system. Now, keeping all of this in mind (it's a lot, I know), we can reach an interesting conclusion. If a body ...
299. Thoth Vol I, No. 27: December 10, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... by flowing water, and pockmarks, or sockets, in the rocks appear to be places where pebbles were dislodged. * Subtle changes in spin were picked up by shifting radio signals between Mars and Earth. Source: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. * * * * * New from Robert E. Dunlap on CD-ROM and Video "Dinosaur: The Arctic Expedition" * Four Part Video Series "Mass Extinctions" Visit URL (NOW With QT Movies) http://home.earthlink.net/~redprods http://www.redprods.com * * * * * MAGNETIC MARS Friday, October 3, 1997- Spacecraft Finds a Magnetic Patchwork on Mars ...
300. Thoth Vol II, No. 2: January 31 , 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... your calendar." The new Hubble pictures show the brilliant fireworks ignited during a head-on wreck between the two Antennae galaxies about 63 million light years away in the southern constellation Corvus (the row). Judging by the time it took the light from the collision to reach Earth, the crash happened rather recently in cosmic terms- shortly after the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. Some of the young stars it produced are barely 2 million years old, a blink-of-an-eye compared with the 5 billion years our sun has existed. Encounters rare today Such encounters between galaxies are rare nowadays, according to Ed Weiler, the chief Hubble telescope scientist. But they were common in the first few ...
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