Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

871. Prelude to Creation [Journals] [Aeon]

... ] H. O. G. Alfvén, "Cosmology in the Plasma Universe: An Introductory Exposition," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 1990), p. 5. [126] Ibid., p. 6. [127] H. Alfvén & G. Arrhenius, Evolution of the Solar System (Washington, D.C ., 1976). [128] H. O. G. Alfvén, see reference # 86, p. 6. [129] Idem, Cosmic Plasma (Dordrecht, Holland, 1981), p. 88. [130] Ibid., pp. 110 ...

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872. The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-historical Record [Journals] [Aeon]

... . Idem, "Let There Be Lights," Catastrophism 2000 (Toronto, 1990)- (henceforth Cat: 2000)- p. 159. 9. W. K. Hartmann, Moons and Planets (Belmont, 1973), p. 121. 10. O. Reichenbach, On Some of the Remarkable Features in the Evolution of the Earth (London, 1884), p. 9. 11. H. S. Bellamy, Moons, Myths and Man (London, 1949), pp. 52, 64. 12. D. W. Patten, et al., The Long Day of Joshua and Six Other Catastrophes (Seattle, 1973 ...

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873. The Electro-gravitic Theory Of Celestial Motion [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... , p. 73. 24. Abell, Realm of the Universe, op. cit., p. 309. 25. Ibld., Appendix 2, A-8. 26. David Layzer, Constructing the Universe, (New York, 1984), pp. 276-277. 27. Gerard Kuiper, "Double Stars," The Evolution of Stars, T. Page, L. W. Page eds., (New York, 1968), p. 165. 28. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Stars in the Making, soft cover ed., (New York, 1952), pp. 63-64. 29. Ibid., p. 58. 30. ...

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874. Ocean Basins [Books] [de Grazia books]

... 1. Richard A. Kerr, "Venus...," 207 Science (18 Jan. 1980), 291. 2. Baker was born in 1872. In 1932 he mimeographed The Atlantic Rift and Its Meaning in Detroit. Fortunately a copy reached the library of Congress. The article is "The Earth Participates in the Evolution of the Solar System," Detroit Acad. Nat. Sci., 1954 (pamphlet). 3. "Testing Vine-Matthews," Open Earth 3 (Apr. 1979), 28-9. 4. Geo Rev., 244; and see A. Cox R.R . Doell, 189 Nature(1956), 45 ...

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875. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]

... electrical impulses derived from the logical consequence of that first accident." We've heard such sentiments expressed before, of course, but rarely with so much gusto and charm. Deloria's indictment of modern evolutionary theory recalls George Bernard Shaw's denunciation of Darwinism earlier in the century: "Natural selection has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live." (6 ) There ...

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876. Return to the Tippe Top [Journals] [SIS Review]

... to stop the Earth and reverse its rotation to provide the east-west reversal. (The contrary is not true; Velikovsky is neither necessary nor sufficient for the tippe-top model.) A further point to note is that an absence of a theoretical justification to a model is not an inevitable bar to its acceptance. Lyell's uniformitarian geology and Darwin's gradualistic evolution both became accepted and established for decades before there was any theoretical justification for their long time scales. The concepts of ice ages, continental drift and geomagnetic reversals have also been accepted without adequate theoretical justification. In the early 1950's the astronomical theory of ice ages was being pronounced "utterly inadequate" [19]. Other theories were ...

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877. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]

... diminishing circle during these early ages of human observation. It was not until after the year 1600 BC., that the circle began to widen again. This gradual alteration was, of course, extremely slow and it must have been very many generations, if ever, before it could have caused any disquietude to the observer. Such an evolution as this nightly somersault performed by so large and brilliant a constellation must have been a most noticeable and impressive sight, especially in the latitude of Heliopolis. Here the Pole is not high overhead as with us in northern Europe, but is low down in the skies just above the house- tops. It is impossible not to see ...

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878. The Sacred Theory of the Earth by Dr. Thomas Burnet [Books]

... What soil more proper for vegetation than this warm moisture, which could have no fault unless it was too fertile and luxuriant? and that is no fault neither at the beginning of a World. This I am sure of, that the learned. amongst the Ancients, both Greeks, Ćgyptians, Phśnician, and other, have described the evolution of the Earth or the temper of the Earth, that was the first subject for the generation and origin of plants and animals, after such a manner, as is truly express'd, and I think with advantage, by this draught of the primigenial Earth. Thus much concerning the matter of the first Earth. Let us reflect a ...

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879. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]

... varied species that the animal world of today seems impoverished by comparison. It looks as though all these animals invaded the world at one time: This sudden bursting on the stage of such a varied population of herbivores, carnivores, rodents and primates, the highest order of the mammals, must be regarded as a most remarkable instance of rapid evolution of species, ' writes D. Wadia in his Geology of India [p . 268]. The hippopotamus, which generally is a climatically specialized type' (de Terra), pigs, rhinoceroses, apes, oxen, filled the interior of the hills almost to bursting. A.R . Wallace, who shares with Darwin ...

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880. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]

... into a Sweeper of the Path' for the Sun." (238) It is the astronomical association, then- the connection with celestial sweeping, the clearing of the way for the new "sun" or world age- that finds the planet Venus in the very guise we should expect. Even in the wake of vast cultural evolution and fragmentation, the nations of Mesoamerica kept alive the ancient link of Great Comet and planet Venus, in the symbolic character of the girl and her broom. CONCLUSION, PART I In this first installment of an extended series, we have asked whether Immanuel Velikovsky's comet Venus is supported by Mesoamerican evidence, cross-referenced with more general traditions about ...

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