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119 pages of results. 861. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... can be more satisfactorily explained by the latter. If he could only have removed himself occasionally from the narrow path he was pursuing he might have seen that there is a parallel path on which the lines of development of life on earth are much the same, but the causation is different; that natural selection may indeed be a force in evolution, but only as an eliminator of the unfit among variations caused by catastrophic mutations. The Attenborough path leads to unnecessary assumptions such as that "the marvellous intricate patterns (of butterfly wings) are statements of identity so that individuals may recognise those with whom mating can be fertile." From the speciation by natural selection point of view ...
862. Thoth Vol I, No. 14: May 21, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... connection with the pole by reference to the present arrangements of the planets than one can explain, within conventional frameworks, Saturn's image as the Universal Monarch, as founder of the Golden Age, or as primeval sun god. Yet the fact remains that throughout the ancient world these images of Saturn constituted a pervasive memory which many centuries of cultural evolution could not obliterate. Separate threads of evidence, each posing its own mystery for the specialists, thus suggest a remarkably unified memory: myth of the Golden Age, myth of the creator-king or celestial prototype of kings, reverence for a former sun god, the archaic day beginning at sunset, placement of the sun god at the cosmic ...
... not astronomers were able to find Velikovsky's suggestions a useful starting point for their own speculations. For instance, Usher Fleising (31) of the Graduate Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University suggested extrapolating the concept of catastrophism backwards into prehistory as a way of investigating early patterns of migration and technical adaptation, perhaps even as an explanation of the rapid evolution from Australopithecus to Homo erectus to the Neanderthal Man. He suggested that "a careful reexamination of the fossil evidence in concert with a revised geological chronology" would show that "some postulated ancestors were probably neighbors." "Taking a non-uniformitarian approach to hominid evolution," Fleising asked, "is it not possible that the evolving drama ...
864. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... than some of its supposed descendents. Not to be deterred, the New Scientist writer suggests that palaeontologists might now look for another ancestral form. When will it occur to them that "missing links" are probably figments of their imagination, and that this recurring picture of animals appearing fully adapted in the fossil record could indicate non-Darwinian modes of evolution? Mammals Had a False Start source: New Scientist 3.6 .82, p. 646 The ancestors of the modern mammals, both marsupial and placental, supposedly branched from reptilian stock about 120 Myr ago. Now a tiny jaw bone plus a few teeth, discovered with dinosaurs in late Jurassic rocks in China, has led ...
865. Ice Cores and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of bronze, tin, silver, cobalt, glass, faience and other minerals in the Near East and argued that these things appeared together at the same time with new peoples from the West where there is tin, copper, cobalt and silver [15]. The Ice Core date of 1159BC creates a framework that dramatically fits the technological evolution of the true Bronze Age. The date also confirms the work of Peter James, David Rohl and other archaeologists who have worked along similar lines for a lower chronology and freedom from the rigid strait-jacket of Manetho's chronology. Notes and References 1. J.E . Dayton, Metals, Minerals, Glazing and Man, Geo. Harrap ...
866. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the oldest man-made artefact in America, and was assigned a date of 27,000 years BP. In May 1986, however, it was discovered to be "badly misdated" - not by a few thousand but by a mere 25,000 years. It is now considered to be less than 2000 years old! Theories of man's evolution and prehistory are often based around such artefacts, but the precarious nature of their cornerstones is seldom admitted. Missing Tectonic Heat?source: NEW SCIENTIST 24.7 .86, p.23 We are watching out for the results of an American bore hole into Earth's crust (this was scheduled for November 1986) to be published ...
867. Velikovsky and his Critics by Shane Mage [Books]
... the formerly dominant ideology of the West, Christian Supernaturalism, these ancient stories are still revealed truth not to be questioned on pain of heresy, a stern warning against disobedience to the Celestial God or His Earthly Vicars. The presently dominant ideology, Humanistic Evolutionism, knows no abrupt changes in the natural order, no interplanetary cataclysms, only slow evolution over huge aeons of geological time, brought about by processes still proceeding uniformly as they did millions of years ago. Nature makes no leaps. The Bible stories are obviously but primitive myths, no more significant than the old-wives-tales of any other primitive culture. No scientist should give them a thought except perhaps to reduce them to familiar events ...
868. A Comprehensive Theory on Aging, Gigantism and Longevity [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... to the biology of gigantism and longevity. Before diving into the pool of data, however, the authors think it appropriate to address, head on, some rather nebulous- but certainly widespread- objections to any hypothesis as heterodox as the one herein presented. Many readers will automatically reject any thesis sharply incompatible with the ever popular theory of evolution. Many evolutionary traditionalists will dislike our attitude on uniformitarian doctrine, the motto of which is " 'the present is the key to the past." Too, a large number of well-educated readers whose concepts have been formed by humanism will instinctively dismiss writers who, for earth-history purposes, take ancient literature seriously, especially the Bible and ...
869. A Cosmic Debate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 11, 1975, in Montreal, Canada, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre under the Chairmanship of Nahum Ravel, and at a symposium to discuss "Velikovsky's Challenge to Conventional Beliefs." 2. However he rejected this term and we could never settle upon another one. I finally coined the term "quantavolution," as contrasted with "evolution," but will be satisfied if the theory and mentality associated with the latter word are changed, letting the word "evolution" evolve suddenly, markedly, and generally. 3. Quoted in A-1. Basham. The Wonder that was India (New York: The Grove Press. 1959. pp.84-5. ...
870. The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After [Books]
... not clearly aware of my audacity in neglecting to do so. My position, no doubt, is made more difficult by the present attitude of biological science, which refuses to hear of the inheritance of acquired characters by succeeding generations. I must, however, in all modesty confess that, nevertheless I cannot do without this factor in biological evolution." See also on page 100, a little farther down: "If we assume the survival of these memory-traces in the archaic heritage, we have bridged the gulf between individual and group psychology: we can deal with peoples as we do with an individual neurotic. Granted that at the time we have no stronger evidence for the ...
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