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119 pages of results. 821. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... , terror, doughty warrior, who wields lightning, master of the deluge...you make abundant greenery." [10] The most familiar example of the thundergod is the Greek Zeus (see Figure 4), whose resemblance to Hadad was commonly acknowledged by the ancients themselves. Although the cult of Zeus was subject to profound evolution, often to the extent that his original nature was largely obscured [11] , the portrait of the god offered by our earliest sources is consistent, and it conforms to that of an agent of thunder, lightning, wind and rain. [12] It would also appear likely that the archaic Zeus was a god of war ...
822. The Youthful Planet Venus [Articles]
... the past few tens of millions of years to have escaped being marked by impact craters." On the plains of Venus researchers have found small vents which oozed lava but "without forming volcanic cones". The researchers say "The large number and wide distribution of vents in the lowlands strongly suggest plains volcanism is an important aspect of surface evolution .. ." What is clearly implied is that either immense outpourings of lava have flowed over and covered huge areas of Venus' surface or the areas the size of continents like scum floating on a pond which moved about removed the craters. And some scientists have suggests large areas of the surface topography of Venus actually looks like floating ...
823. On Cosmic Electricity [Journals] [Pensee]
... this occurs in a prolonged discharge in astronomy it causes aggregation of large volumes of thinly distributed gas and matter into relatively narrow channels, so that when the current dies away the compressed gas expands and cools, condensing into stars in galactic atmospheres and either planets or companion stars in stellar atmospheres. The comments of Professor G. Burbidge on cosmic evolution (5 ) may be of interest at this point. He writes ". . . attempts are made to explain the condensation of dense objects from an initial cloud of matter and radiation which is expanding. It has been known for many years that this is very difficult to understand, and the investigations have now reached the point where ...
... 11 To attribute to Velikovsky information which he never presented in his book is essentially an ad hominem attack on Velikovsky's personality and motives. The earlier laudable statements of Sagan are contradicted by his own words. What is Velikovsky's view of religion, astrology and superstition? In Earth in Upheaval, Velikovsky presented his opinion regarding Darwin and The Church on evolution. "Darwin's theory represented progress as compared with the teaching of the Church. The Church assumed a world without change since the Beginning. Darwin introduced the principle of slow but steady change in one direction, from one age to another, from one eon to another. In comparison with the Church's teaching of immutability, Darwin's theory of ...
825. When the Sea Flooded Britain [Journals] [SIS Review]
... later Middle Ages, whilst the decalcified [fen] area contained a tidal channel at least by the eleventh century. We therefore need to question how far the geological evidence can accommodate these contrasts and apparent contradictions.For the future, the need is clear. Historians, geologists and archaeologists must work in collaboration if the problems of the Marsh's evolution are to be solved' [92] (my parentheses and highlighting in bold). Amen! I have tried to show that such anomalies have occurred elsewhere, and provided a possible explanation, but Brooks' message is still timely and apposite. Fig. 8: A flood model of the Thames Valley. A chronology of maritime ...
826. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... are waiting to rule the world; they are served by a line of high priests or crypto-Popes including Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton... If you enjoy that sort of thing, it is tremendous fun. 24. Winter', p. 244. This is one of a number of unsatisfactory statements about evolution in the book. We are glacial man'. Hard times are selective. In any case, major events in the past have shaped us: we would not have arrived quicker without them - we would simply not have arrived. 25. Precession of the equinoxes is the arrival of the natural quarter days' a little earlier each ...
827. Catastrophe, Collective Trauma, and the Origin of Civilization [Articles]
... occurring at unpredictable intervals. HUMANITY: WOUNDED AND PRECOCIOUS It appears that humankind has had a trying childhood. And just as some abused children cope with adversity by plunging themselves into intellectual or creative activities, perhaps humanity as a whole has done something similar. Neurobiologist William Calvin, in his The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence (Bantam, 1990), suggests that it was by matching wits with frequent climate changes that our early ancestors learned to develop their capacities for language, culture, technological innovation, and ethics. For biologists, the evolution of modern Homo sapiens constitutes one of the greatest of mysteries. We differ from the apes in a ...
828. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... with the pattern of extinction has led some workers to postulate an impact event similar to that which is thought to have ended the Cretaceous period. Gradualism holed by the Great Barrier Reef New Scientist 20.10.90, p. 15 Samples of core sediments drilled on the Great Barrier Reef appear to give admirable support for recent theories that evolution has taken place in rapid bursts. The chief scientist of the project is quoted as saying that Sacred cows went out the window every day'. The cores showed that the reef is no older than 1 Myrs and may be as young as 500,000 years which is 40 times younger than has been believed till now. This ...
829. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... dense coating round the nucleus, in which case it turns into a solid body no longer capable of producing a tail, just like an asteroid. After a few hundred circuits, therefore, a comet has evolved into generally invisible bodies: a meteor stream and possibly an asteroid both of which continue to move in the same orbit. This evolution is obviously very slow in the case of long-period comets from the Oort cloud but very rarely, or depending on your time-scale, very often, one of these comets comes very close to the planet Jupiter and gets deflected into a new orbit. Usually the deflection results in the comet being flung straight out of the planetary system but occasionally ...
... probes recently soft-landed on Venus and took photographs. These photographs reveal sharp-edged rocks which were classified as young-looking. The Venera 9 and 10 photos show a young-looking surface that inspired [this] speculation, [in] (Aviation Week and Space Technology, Nov. 3, 1975) that Venus is in an, early cool down phase of evolution rather than in final stages of suffocation in a thickening atmospheric greenhouse. ' "It was suggested that on an evolutionary scale, Venus should be classed with the young still living planets. ' "In a Nature article, Sagan said that the rocks should look young because there should be very little erosion. [Nature, Vol. ...
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