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119 pages of results. 801. Collective Behaviorism and Ancient Astronomy [Journals] [Horus]
... /behavioral associations through conditioned learning alone. The complex, conscious, intelligent achievements of ancient astronomers in relation to these conditioned associations is neither discounted nor diminished though, from the view of behavioral science, the course of this adaptive behavior and discovery was pre-determined by the nature of the environment. Before these formal developments in the sequence of human evolution, proto-human behavior must already have been conditioned to the patterned relationships between astronomical stimuli and the sequence of seasons. Behavioral Science: Pavlovian (classical) conditioning Since the discovery of reflex conditioning, behavioral science has evolved into an elaborate, empirically grounded technology that identifies the environment as the primary determinant of behavior. The conditioned reflex, whose ...
802. The Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . 5. Alfvén reported by Eric Lerner in The Big Bang Never Happened, p. 214. 6. See Margaret Wertheim, Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars, 1997, p. 221.l 7. Halton Arp, Seeing Red', Apeiron, 1999. 8. Alfvén, H., Evolution of the Solar System, NASA SP-345, p. 3. 9. S.R . Taylor, Solar System Evolution - A new Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 10. S.R . Taylor, On the difficulties of making Earth-like planets, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 34, pp. 317-329, 1999. ...
803. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... down by the Yukon! Rivers on Mars?source: Scientific American May 86, pp.42-50 Viking Orbiter pictures suggest that Mars once supported flowing rivers, and that water action of these had caused evidence of considerable erosion on the Red Planet (Workshop 5:1 , p.25). Robert M. Haberle argues for an evolution of the climate of Mars which took it in an opposite direction to Earth: in its heyday Mars would have supported oceans which were tens to hundreds of metres deep, but now it is too cold to support any kind of stable liquid water. Mere distance from the Sun is considered to be an obvious factor, as Mars receives ...
804. Scientific Dating Problems: The Radiometric Dating Of Earth's Rocks [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . A Chronology' of Geochronology Charles Lyell'spublication of Principles of Geology in the 1830s may be regarded as defining the start of geochronology. His theory of uniformitarianism explained that Earth's natural features had developed through slow processes such as local volcanism, sedimentation and erosion by wind and water. His millions of years' timescale inspired Darwin's gradualist theory of biological evolution by natural selection. Although several geologists and biologists reserved judgement on some aspects of these mutually supportive theories, by Darwin's death in 1882 the concept of an enormous timescale had effectively ousted that of a 6,000 year old Earth and become received wisdom. Another 14 years passed before Becquerel stumbled on radioactivity in uranium; then the Curies ...
805. A Catastrophist Reading of Religious Systems [Journals] [SIS Review]
... or the future or are said to be cyclical. Fourthly, we should determine what each religion's attitude is towards natural destruction. Does it portray this as malevolent or benevolent? Lastly, we can check whether a religion sees the world as an evolving process or a static form or a cyclic return, whether time is a linear arrow of evolution or an endlessly cyclical round of recurrence. These together can constitute our master measuring device, which for convenience I will call the T-grid. Naturally, within these major categories there might be subsets and even overlapping, as, for example, if a religion denies the death of the world but accepts the destruction of the individual, or ...
806. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Egyptian Pyramid Texts, the Vedic hymns generally present only the barest outlines of a particular myth, the details of the myth, presumably, being thoroughly familiar to the audience. Moreover, although it forms the oldest body of Indian texts, the Veda itself is the product of many authors and bears numerous signs of having undergone a considerable evolution. (8 ) Thus it is hardly surprising to find that the Vedic traditions- including those involving Indra- display the contradictions and secondary accretions that would be expected given such a history. Dumezil offered the following assessment of the Vedic traditions: "The authors of the poems who give praise to Indra sometimes make multiple references to the ...
807. Facing Many Problems, Part 2 Epilogue (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... oil deposits, the origin of volcanoes, the cause of earthquakes. H owever, geological, paleontological, and anthropological material related to the problems of cosmic catastrophes is vast and may give a complete picture of past events no less than historical material. What can we establish concerning the disappearance of species and even of genera, the theory of evolution versus the theory of catastrophic mutations, and the development of animal and plant life in general, or the time when giants lived or when brontosau ri populated the earth? The submersion and emersion of land, the origin of the salt in the sea, the origin of deserts, of gravel, of coal deposits in Antarctica, and ...
808. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Siberia and the other a slightly smaller one in Chesapeake Bay. Analysis indicates that they may have been made by asteroids, but this causes a problem because such massive asteroid strikes are supposed only to occur once in 26 Myrs. Perhaps they were part of an even larger object which got torn apart during an earlier close approach to Earth. EVOLUTION Lamarck Resurfaces (New Scientist, 21.8 .04., p. 13) Biologists have had to accept that a form of Lamarckism, now named epigenetic' inheritance, does take place, whereby new traits acquired during the lifetime of an organism can be inherited, by-passing the supposedly infinitely slow mutational change of genes. Now ...
809. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... course, any public acknowledgement of the fact that they have done so). A conspicuous example of this tactic is provided by Stephen Jay Gould, the widely read science columnist of Natural History Magazine. Having gradually abandoned a uniformitarian model of Earth history in favor of a catastrophist model, he has effectively covered his tracks by referring to catastrophic evolution as "punctuational change".(14) The ostracism of Velikovsky, like that of his anomalistically oriented psychoanalytic precursor Wilhelm Reich,(15) inevitably raises the question of the nature of science. Is it primarily empirical, as it seemed to be with Thomas Edison, or theoretical, as it clearly was with Albert Einstein? ...
810. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... as the sacred area where the souls departed from their bodies and must be treated correctly lest they harm the living. During its last few hundred years, however, it seems as though its people were undergoing a crisis of faith. What of the theories that Stonehenge was deliberately designed for complex astronomical observations? Burl's detailed interpretations of the gradual evolution of this site left this reader, at least, convinced that such ideas of archaeo-astronomy are but the foisting of a modern scientific outlook upon a culture far remote from ours, not only in time but in its basic attitude to life and death. The people of Stonehenge were concerned with alignments to the Moon and Sun during their rituals ...
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