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119 pages of results. 921. San Francisco, February 25, 1974 [Journals] [Pensee]
... a scientific debate. The next comment concerned the resistance of scientists to new ideas. Professor Mulholland approached the platform to say, "I think two examples [of ready acceptance of new ideas by scientists] are the discovery of mass concentrations on the moon and the internal heat. We have moved from the discussions of .. . the evolution of the moon into a state of .. . excitement that has totally rejuvenated the entire subject." Velikovsky, a few moments later, had an opportunity to challenge this: I would like to ask Professor Mulholland whether he knows who was the first to claim- in time- the heat [of the moon].... ...
922. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... thus offering a close parallel to the subtitle of the Elements, dealing with Ancient Changes' and containing the chapters on historical geology that had been printed separately after 1838. 6 The change in the subtitle may be interpreted as an indication of LYELL'S moving away from rigid uniformitarianism in his later years which is also evident from his changing views on evolution and the Ice Age. At least the 1866 subtitle, announcing an "enquiry" not an "attempt", explicitly leaves open the possibility that this enquiry might show "causes now in operation" not to be adequate in all cases. Before discussing the implications of uniformitarianism as a principle and as a theory we must deal with ...
923. Thoth Vol II, No. 17: Oct 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... typically be extremely small, but in the hypothesized assembly of planets, these bodies were unusually close together. And this not only makes a large difference, it could support the idea of a collinear system going on virtually forever. (In fact, however, the Saturn model is NOT dependent on long duration of any phase in the dynamic evolution of the system.) The physicist Robert Driscoll, who has spent much of his life working with electromagnetic principles, also expressed interest in collinear equilibrium. Under Newton's laws, the force of gravity varies with the inverse square of the distance between two bodies. And interestingly, the lapse rate of magnetic force between the poles of two ...
924. Thoth Vol II, No. 14: Sept 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... is seen on a local landscape, and the entire texture has changed. (For example, he no longer stands in relationship to a central sun or Universal Monarch, but instead serves a TERRESTRIAL "great king", a literary echo of the central sun.) The principle of localization is almost certainly the most misunderstood tendency in the evolution of myth. And the Iliad would make an excellent case study. Homer's story is presented as an account of the tenth year of the "Trojan War", as a confederation of Greek tribes under the rule of Agamemnon and led by the hero Achilles, sought to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of King Menelaus, by ...
925. The Recency of the Surface [Books] [de Grazia books]
... by the extent of their deformation and metamorphism. Radiometric dating also revealed that Precambrian time was far greater than anyone previously imagined."[8 ] (Precambrian time is accorded 80% of all rock time and Precambrian rock by one estimate surface over 17% of the Earth.) Fossil-time is heavily theory-dependent. Alter the assumed speed of evolution and one alters fossil-time, and the dating of its associated sediments. Evolution-time, once we dismiss the pretensions of natural selection (adaptation and survival of the fittest), and microevolution (neo-darwinism) and introduce quantavolution, can be calibrated on practically any time-scale, allowing only a perceptible succession and superposition of species. The boundary times between ...
926. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... embarrassment her shameless character would permit her. THE COSMIC SPINNER The most penetrating studies of Aphrodite as the Moon Goddess come from Elmer George Suhr. He entitles one of his books Venus de Milo, The Spinner; the Link between a Famous Art Mystery and Ancient Fertility Symbols [19] A decade later he published The Spinning Aphrodite; The Evolution of the Goddess from Earliest Pre-Hellenic Symbolism through Late Classical Times [20]. The Venus de Milo, as is well-known, is a statue without arms. Suhr, reconstructing the statue anatomically and on the basis of more complete representations of Aphrodite, concluded that she was occupied at spinning yarn. A fine picture is to be found ...
927. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... expressing distaste for the label "Dutch". The word simply is a generic term, encompassing all Teutonic peoples. Its derivation is from the Latin "teuto", Gothic "thiuda", Old Germanic "dioto" (adj. "diutisk"), Anglo-Saxon "theod", and so forth. One interesting example is its evolution into the Italian "tedeschi" which was a generic term for the Swiss mercenaries who represented their cantons' main export during the invasions of Italy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The development of movable type was gaining momentum dramatically at this time, and was as subject to demand in determining its products as it is today ...
928. Timna and Egyptian Dates [Journals] [Aeon]
... , though somewhat different from later pottery, do not undergo an abrupt change in the later strata IV-II. There is no dramatic discontinuity in pottery craftmanship that would allow us to speak of a total disconnection between Stratum V and Stratum IV, supposedly separated by one and a half millennium or more. The same gradual pace we see in the evolution of pottery can also be demonstrated for metal-working. The copper metallurgy of Stratum IV is already in place in the preceding Stratum V where the excavators found "a fragment of a copper tool" as well as "numerous tiny fragments of copper ore and a quantity of small pieces of copper smelting slag." (16) Disc beads ...
929. Concepts of Collective Memory [Articles]
... idea is that the flowering somehow or the expression somehow of urges that are born into the system, they come with the cells, they come with the structure of the body and they flower anew in each generation in a developmental way and are really primarily at their most basic level a product, in Freud and Jung's thinking, of biological evolution. Jung went so far as to say that the collective unconscious, with which we are primarily concerned, is not a question, for him at least, of the repression of the collective unconscious contents as such, they were never conscious to begin with, that they took form very gradually over uniformitarian standard time and that they are ...
930. Thoth Vol I, No. 9: March 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . For in later times it was claimed that Kronos had actually dwelt on earth. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, for example, in remembering the Golden Age, was emphatic on the point: "Kronos ruled on this very earth," he insisted. The same idea was proclaimed in Orphic tradition. The correspondence with the global myth and its evolution over time (as the gods were brought down to earth), is indeed remarkable. But the Greek myth of Kronos brings us to a critical juncture. For this celestial power is identified, and the identity leads inexorably to a series of far-reaching discoveries. All Greek astronomical traditions agreed that Kronos was the planet Saturn. What is ...
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