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119 pages of results. 471. Quantavolution of the Biosphere: Homo Sapiens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Stanley). An average species of late Cenozoic mammal survived one to two million years without transitional forms. With this average, it seems impossible to account for changes from primitive forms to bats and whales, in twelve million years of the early Cenozoic. So reports the same author, who notes that "much more than fifty percent of evolution occurs through sudden events in which => polymorphs and species are proliferated". In the American West, drawings of dinosaurs have been found, presumably by the hand of ancient Indians (Hubbard). The existence, on the banks of the Puluxy River in Texas, of human footprints (not detectably different from the footprints of a ...
472. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Comparison with later observations suggests that Ring C is steadily spreading out. The ring cannot, of course, have been spreading indefinitely - there must have been a starting point when the ring itself was formed. The significance of this curious phenomenon been stressed by Clube and Napier: If the measurements are taken at face value a very recent evolution or origin for the Saturnian ring system is implied'. The speed of the spreading - noticeable in just 150 years - is extremely fast in astronomical terms and Clube and Napier conclude that the evolution of the Saturn ring system should be considered in terms of a timescale of a mere 500 to 10,000 years [65]. ...
... finally at three score and ten. LETTER FROM PROF. I. N. VAIL. MY DEAR DR. BOWERS: I have read with much interest thy compendium of "The Earth's Annular System," as published by me in 1886. A synopsis of that work can give but a meager idea of the grand conception of the annular evolution of the earth. "The Annular Theory" stands on the immutable truth that worlds evolve according to invariable law. This compels us to" admit that all worlds are made alike, in the general changes they undergo. Just as a bud evolves into a flower of the most delicate construction and architectural order, so- a world ...
474. Chaldean Account of Genesis [Books]
... placed, approximately at least, in- such relation to the synthesis or philosophy of occultism as to render comparatively easy the task of the student who is in search of real knowledge, and to further his progress beyond all preconception, provided he is teachable, in earnest, and intelligent. Nowhere else in English literature is the Law of Evolution given such sweep and swing. It reminds one of the ceaseless undertone of the deep sea, and seems to view our Earth in all its changes "from the birth of time to the crack of doom." It follows man in his triple evolution, physical, mental, and spiritual, throughout the perfect circle of his boundless ...
475. Knowing the Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... present fragmented universe of starry bodies was created by a primordial explosion, but that a limit of expansion will be reached, whereupon the universe will implode. Again it is often said that man will colonize space, etc. All such processes appear to be non-random, hence to some thinkers, purposeful. Take the biological "law" that evolution cannot reverse itself. If this is so, evolution appears to have some goal, which encourages certain theorists to feel better about the world and others to believe in gods. Materialists can take a different view: non-random processes develop an evermore specific direction out of inertia; once an ear begins to evolve in animals, it will develop ...
476. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... tear glands, produce copious outflowings of salty fluid unparalleled in other primates. Sweating in humans now functions as heat control, but is not common in other animals - which in any case use apocrine and not eccrine glands. The loss of salts and water in sweat is a distinct disadvantage, and certainly would have been during an early savannah evolution. However, this unusual function could be more reasonably explained if developed as a response to an aquatic existence in a marine environment where there would be a need to excrete an excess intake of salt. More evidence against the theory of savannah evolution was reported 1.8 .85, p.24. Pollen and other evidence indicates ...
477. Pterodactyls in the Mesozoic: A Flap in Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... reasoning that may have some far-reaching significance with respect to that day and age. At this point it is appropriate to inject the demurral that the old view in which our present world order is pretty much as it was back in the primordial past is rapidly being eroded away. Although I'm a devout secular atheist myself, and don't believe in evolution as it is being currently purveyed, there are quite a few hard-won pieces of information gleaned over the years that one must use in order to build a scientific case. Without such a basis, everything is just space gas, no matter how substantive the original premises seemed to have been. Future disclosures will eventually correct our errors. ...
478. History [Books]
... | III | IV | Acknowledgements | Notes And References | CHAPTER 5: History And Chronology As has been explained in the Preface, the purpose of this book is to collect geological and geophysical evidence bearing on the Theory of Impact and to study the physical consequences of this theory in those fields. Environment is doubtless the dominant factor in the evolution of man, as it is, and has been, for animals and plants. We have already seen the results of changes in environment on living creatures other than man. The importance of the study of the consequences of cosmic catastrophism on the history of man is of such paramount character that the present author intends to deal in detail ...
479. Palaeomagnetism And Archaeomagnetism [Books]
... pottery, spindle whorls, loom weights, etc.) will possess a TRM which will reflect the geomagnetic field existing at the time of manufacture. The TRM of man-made baked clay artifacts in the past is called archaeo-magnetism. Archaeo-magnetism is but a subdivision of palaeo-magnetism. The study of palaeo-magetism and archaeo-magnetism permits an idea to be formed of the evolution of the geomagnetic field in the past, provided that the samples analysed are dated geologically or archaeologically with sufficient accuracy. The results show that the strength of the geomagnetic field has been steadily decreasing for the past 2,000 years. Before that, it is believed that it was decreasing for many centuries, although some recent measurements made ...
480. Indra [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the uniformitarian interpretation of the Maruts as mere storm gods.(13) Forrest's judgement, like Velikovsky's own, is however based on the laudatory hymns of the Rig Veda. There is more to the Maruts than that. Forrest, like Velikovsky, whom he criticizes for being selective, failed to take the origin, history, and evolution of the Maruts into consideration. Some of this follows below. Originally the Maruts numbered seven.(14) As the seven children of Saturn, they may be compared with the sevenfold ring which surrounded the Saturnian Sun of Night in primeval times.(15) These seven rings were also the original Pleiades.(16) In ...
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