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119 pages of results. 961. "Worlds in Collision": Reviews and Reviewers [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Fulton Oursler, a senior editor at Reader's Digest, chose to interpret part of Velikovsky's thesis as a defense against Clarence Darrow's famous cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." Darrow had used Bryan's Biblical literalism regarding Joshua's stopping the sun and the moon in the sky to belittle the fundamentalists' opposition to Darwinian evolution; but now Velikovsky, "[ like] a detective among the sciences...has put together by deductive reasoning a chain of circumstantial evidence that may deeply affect the world of thinking men." On Feb. 19 the New York Times and the Herald Tribune each ran full-page ads announcing the appearance of "The Heavens Burst ...
962. Heinsohn's Revised Chronology [Journals] [Aeon]
... Sumerian or Akkadian languages nor the cuneiform script in which they were they written. As we have just noted, his inability to handle these basic tools for serious study of ancient Mesopotamian civilization allows him to make impossible historical synchronisms and causes him to make a number of erroneous statements about ancient Sumerian and Akkadian. The cuneiform script shows a consistent evolution from period to period in ancient Mesopotamia. Starting from the pictographic signs on tablets of the Uruk and Jemdet-Nasr Periods, the writing becomes progressively more stylized and less and less like the objects originally represented. (13) And experts can usually identify the period when a tablet or inscription was written from the script alone. Heinsohn's lack of ...
963. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... throughout the uranium mass; as their densities equal or exceed that of lead, a lump the size of a barleycorn would weigh at least few grams. Why would ancient man search through tons of metallic ore (which would have shielded the activity of shamir, making it undetectable) in hopes of finding a tiny but powerful fragment within? Evolution' of the Elements Over 90% of the observed Universe consists of the lightest element, hydrogen. In stars like our sun, hydrogen is converted to helium by nuclear fusion, liberating large amounts of energy. In the dense cores of highly evolved stars, helium nuclei are captured in other nuclei, to create carbon, oxygen, ...
964. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , being the first, it would be the greatest. How's that for salvation from inferiority? By putting the issue in this light, by referring to the historical conditions in the 19th century, we can see in social terms that the Indo-European theory is a combined attack on the Jewish language by the Germans at a traumatic period in their evolution and is similar to the German attacks upon the Bible and the Jewish race to which I have already referred. This must lead us to wonder whether the theory is more of a cultural than a philological phenomenon, a racial urge prompted by desire rather than thought. A close look leads one to suspect that its longevity is due more ...
965. Three Views of Heinsohn's Chronology [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a candidate for such an Akkadian idiom is quickly named: Assyrian literature of the 7th century BC should look more archaic than Old Babylonian literature. The most famous piece of ancient Mesopotamian literature is represented by the Gilgamesh Epic, and modern Assyriology can take pride in a marvellous study devoted to this outstanding achievement of human heritage under the title The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic (J . H. Tigay: 1982). To its author's great surprise the Old Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh Epic, written down some time between 2000 and 1700 BC, displays the most elaborate Akkadian paraphrase, the highest sophistication of style and the most mature presentation of contents. The so-called classical version of ...
966. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... are convinced that a substantial increase in the nitrates around the time of the ending of the last ice ages reflects there having been great solar events at that time. Geomagnetic Field sources: Scientific American Dec. 1989, pp. 30-37; Science 247, (23.2 .90), p. 916 In an article on The evolution of the Earth's magnetic field' it is disappointing not to be given an explanation of how the field originated: however, Scientific American claims the geodynamo is self-perpetuating because the Earth's magnetic field has been present to some extent throughout geological time'. Flows of molten iron in Earth's core are invoked to explain almost everything: the magnetic field ...
967. Opening the Floodgates [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... there are some very fine distinctions to be made, but in the circumstances it is essential. Huggett limits the use of the word uniformitarianism' solely to the specific system of Lyell in which the state of the Earth's surface has been more or less the same throughout its history: it allows for fluctuations or repetitions but not irreversible change or evolution. For Lyell's methodological principle, he settles for the term actualism', and calls assumptions of rate either gradualistic' or catastrophic'. Thus there are four possible types of diluvialist system: either actualistic or non-actualistic coupled with either catastrophic or gradualistic diluvialism. Also of relevance is fluvialism', the system in which geological changes are held ...
968. Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests [Journals] [SIS Review]
... central Germany, where evergreen forests still existed, while in Iceland at the same period deciduous trees and conifers flourished, serving to indicate a cooler climate. Heer's paleobotanical discoveries documented that global temperatures gradually decreased during the Tertiary period, a fact already known from the study of marine mollusks. Research in paleontology led Heer to disagree with Darwin on evolution. Heer viewed species in general as constant; but at certain times in the geological past, during so-called periods of creation, species possessed the ability to bring forth resemblant species. In his work on fossil plants, Heer was never able to find the gradual and ever regularly continuing, purposeless metamorphism of species' presupposed by Darwin. ...
969. Thoth Vol IV, No 3: Feb 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , and were capable of rational processes -always given the means at hand. It is enough to say that this flies in the face of a custom which has become already a second nature. Our period may some day be called the Darwinian period, just as we talk of the Newtonian period of two centuries ago. The simple idea of evolution, which it is no longer thought necessary to examine, spreads like a tent over all those ages that lead from primitivism into civilization. Gradually, we are told, step by step, men produced the arts and crafts, this and that, until they emerged into the light of history. Those soporific words "gradually" and ...
970. The Center Holds [Journals] [Pensee]
... Inseparable from the geological record is the paleontological and biological. This touches a part of Velikovsky's work which can legitimately be called a theory- that of catastrophic mutation. The bulk of his effort has been towards a reconstruction of specific events, while the term "theory" is better applied to a general account (verifiable by experimentation). Darwinian evolution lays claim to the status of a theory not because it can be experimentally verified, but only because it claims that processes that occurred in the past are also occurring unnoticeably in the present. Velikovsky's theory of mutations, on the other hand, is supported by experiments already performed (cf. Muller's subjection of vinegar flies to x-rays) ...
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