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119 pages of results. 401. H. H. Hess and My Memoranda [Journals] [Pensee]
... IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 8 P.M . Guyot Hall, Washington Road Open to the Public In January, 1965, Hess took the initiative to organize the Cosmos and Chronos Study and Discussion Group, and he placed in the Bulletin of the University an announcement of the first open discussion. Originally we planned a debate on evolution based on the uniformitarian principle vs. evolution based mainly on cataclysmic events. My opponent was to have been Princeton professor of biology, Colin Pittendrigh. There was a mutual respect between us (earlier he had visited me and also inscribed to me a biology text which he co-authored with G. G. Simpson, my early antagonist) ...
402. Ice Core Evidence [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... are given a different name if they are found at different stratigraphic levels, while, if discovered together [at the same level], they would be considered the same species or genus. So modern foraminifera are likely represented in older sediments of the geological time scale and are disguised by different names. Evolutionists have called this process "iterative evolution" (similar to parallel or convergent evolution), whereby the same form supposedly evolved, repeatedly, during geological history. From a statistical point of view, iterative evolution seems incredible for a basically chance process (random mutations). It appears to be a high-sounding term, designed to cover up an embarrassing evolutionary problem. To add ...
403. Radiocarbon Dating The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... have become uncritical, and on the other, a host of geologic doubters who refuse to accept the probability that many gems lie within the handful of number' grains offered them. ". .. All applicable dating methods and all possible materials are being used. This shotgun approach is not thoroughly satisfactory but is recognized as part of the evolution of science. THE POSSIBILITY THAT ALL METHODS USED TODAY ARE WRONG MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED."22 (Capitalization added) Elsewhere I have pointed out several major problems and fundamental contradictions in radiocarbon and other dating methods.23 What I pointed out in that article is that radiocarbon was put to a basic test and failed, on a massive ...
404. The Role of Ancient Myths in Orthodox Natural Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... . The son contributed his transcendence and the father contributed his immanence. With this coincidence of contraries (as Cusa later understood), the seed became periodically tempered with both. These contraries amounted to an embodied space and (on the other hand) an ageless kind of capacity for times. Here is one of the earliest ideas of human evolution. It should be noted that this was a psychosomatic physical evolution, which was inaugurated and sustained by periodic "heroic frenzy" (Bruno) on the part of a naturally endowed individual to confront the existential world with a demonstration of the infinite power a natural individual possesses (through his species). Like the Phoenix, an individual ...
405. The Garden, the Fall, and the Restoration [Journals] [Kronos]
... of collective amnesia; they would tell of a time when there was no war, institutionalized irrationality and cruelty, or individual and collective self-destructive behavior. Records of such a state the paradise myths do exist. Yet the idea that there may actually have been a "golden age" runs against the grain of man's current ideas of progress and evolution. Since anthropologists and historians have consistently viewed paradise myths as nothing more than folkloristic inventions, if we presume to take the myths seriously we must first consider whether there are anthropological and archaeological grounds for entertaining the possibility that they may contain elements of historical truth. The idea of progress is a relatively recent one: many ancient authorities, ...
406. Introduction to Velikovsky [Articles]
... ranging from unequivocal statements in written documents, through remembrances expressed in myth and legend, to mute archaeological evidence in the form of obsolete calendars and sundials- and his examination of geological and paleontological reports from all parts of the globe, led him to conclude that modern man's snug little world, set in a framework of celestial harmony and imperceptible evolution, is but an illusion. Velikovsky's reappraisal of world history ravages established doctrine in disciplines from astronomy to psychology; universal gravitation of masses is not the only force governing celestial motions- electromagnetic forces must also play important roles; enigmatic breaks in the geological record denote, not interminable ages of languorous erosion and deposition gently terminated by cyclic submergence ...
407. Fossil Deposits [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , few species are found, and the same species are more commonly found on the continental shelf with few mutations. There is no exclusively abyssal flora or fauna, nor any "living fossil ancestors." The fact, however, that species do inhabit the abyss signifies that the abyss, were it old enough and the conventional processes of evolution occurring, would be teeming with adapted and mutated species. The same logic would explain the scarcity of life forms in the high mountains, in the atmospheric bands, deep, below the land surface, and in the deserts. The inhospitability of these environments is only relative to dubious premises. Conventional long-time uniformitarian evolution and adaptation would have ...
408. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... bodily acts." Inevitably, since consciousness is stated to be based upon language, it must have arisen after language, and therefore must be a relatively recent phenomenon. At the beginning of the third chapter, Jaynes notes that the traditional view that at least some animals are conscious, and that consciousness is in some way related to the evolution of the brain (thus making man conscious as he learned language) can no longer be valid. An examination of the ILIAD reveals that man cannot have been "conscious" at this time: there are no words in the ILIAD that demonstrate that man was capable of conscious mental acts: all the words like "psyche", ...
409. On Celestial Mechanics [Journals] [Pensee]
... article with considerable interest, and only wish he had kept up the discussion begun seven years ago. It would have benefited us both. Unfortunately, at the moment I can only deal with some of the points he raises, but I should like sometime to summarize the many successes of the electrical discharge theory of cosmic atmospheric phenomena and universal evolution, as there has been little published in USA since the short series of papers in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, December, 1959 to 1963 (which brought the Journal and me one of 24 Journal Fund Silver Pen Awards for Learned Publications, 1955-1959), which was brought to an end by a change in editorial policy. ...
... it follow from that that Hebrew is fitted for modern uses? There is a great difference between Isaiah and micro-biology. In recent years there have been three theories all relating to different branches of science, three theories which have attracted the attention even of the unscientific. One of these is the philosophic theory known generally as the theory of creative evolution, and the author of that is my friend Mr. Bergson. a great philosopher and a Jew. Another theory much talked of, or rather another group of theories, constitute what is called the new psychology. The author of that [Freud] is my friend, also a Jew. The third theory, the most comprehensive ...
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