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119 pages of results. 971. Reexamination of the Foundations [Journals] [Pensee]
... is the evolutionary question. I have done a great deal of work on Darwin and can say with some assurance that Darwin also did not derive his theory from nature but rather superimposed a certain philosophical world-view on nature and then spent 20 years trying to gather the facts to make it stick. We have now become very used to dealing with evolution, uniformitarianism, and gravity, and we have forgotten what their foundations are. But Velikovsky should not be rejected on the basis of 100 years of tradition. It may be that these 100 years of tradition have rested on very insecure foundations. Scientist, Philosopher And Poet The following is excerpted from a telephone interview on March 22, ...
972. Velikovsky on the Formation of Coal [Journals] [Pensee]
... development of coking properties and marine influences operating during deposition, decomposition and/or metamorphism. Coal: Its Formation and Composition, pp. 14-17. Velikovsky, in a comprehensive review of the geological literature of the last 170 years, throws doubt upon the validity of the Lyell geological law of uniformity for the earth and the Darwinian law of evolution, through continuity, for plants and animals. The theory of uniformity, or of gradual changes in the past measured by the extent and nature of changes observed in the present, implies the gradual crumbling of the earth's crust by wind, sun and rain, and its transport into the sea. This is followed by the gradual elevation ...
973. Foreword and Introduction to Ages in Chaos [Velikovsky]
... this material from the realm of stones and bones is not rare but abundant, such an undertaking would seemingly not be difficult. It was therefore a great temptation for me to continue from where I had left off in Worlds in Collision, to prove again and again, from new angles, that catastrophes did take place and did disrupt slow-moving evolution in inanimate as well as animate nature. And in fact. since the publication of Worlds in Collision, I have devoted myself to organizing the evidence from geology and prehistory to supplement the literary and historical evidence of cosmic catastrophism, and to writing Earth in Upheaval, only little concerned with the storm aroused by my first book. But ...
974. The Devil's Advocate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... sapiens existed ten or a hundred million years ago. What would remain then- if the attacks upon your timescale were to succeed- would be the general sequences and interplay of forces; a method of explaining orogeny, sea bottoms the moon emplacement, the extermination and birth of species, etc. A theory of the time-stretched solar-system as an evolution from a binary would remain hence the movements of planets, the disintegration of Super-Uranus in nova phases, the heavy atmospheric envelope of the binary system, etc. But all of this can probably be successfully attacked too. You coin too many words. Take your calendar of ages, now wouldn't it be better to call Urania "The ...
975. Man's Divine Mirror [Books] [de Grazia books]
... for enhanced early religion. Psychology and the history of religion can show how the religious mind has expectedly peaked in these actual stress periods and subsided when the strains relaxed. Practically all historians of religions of religion and renowned modern theologians have accepted evolutionary theories of cultural development in describing religious history. Even Henri Bergson who spoke of a "discontinuous evolution which proceeds by bounds" saw this progressive achievement of higher forms of behavior against the backdrop of an unchanging natural scenery. To all of such thinkers, religion must have progressed out of a rational advancement of humanity (even though Bergson credits mysticism with innovation in religion). That is, rationally evolving man creates ever more rational religion ...
976. Velikovsky's Legacy [Articles]
... of a dragon-formed goddess spewing fire across the heavens, or of a witch-like star whose disheveled hair threatened to blot out the light of the sun, traditions which only recently appeared wholly impossible, imaginary, or lost in the mists of antiquity, now appear as archetypal, ubiquitous and profoundly relevant for an adequate understanding of ancient history, the evolution of human thought, and the origins of civilization (language, art, myth, religion, ritual, etc. ). Aside from the abundant mythical testimony, is there any physical evidence for this bizarre scenario? Actually the evidence is quite extensive as, indeed, must be the case if such events actually occurred. Consider the ...
... is essential enough to be taken up more than once. Being so slow, and in a man's age so imperceptible, it has been taken for granted [n9 I.e ., during the last hundred years, at least. In former times, when the Humanities had not yet been "infected" by the biological scheme of evolution, the scholars showed better confidence in the capacities of the creators of high civilization.] that no one; could have detected the Precession prior to Hipparchus' alleged discovery of the phenomenon, in 127 B.C . Hipparchus discovered and proved that the Precession turns around the pole of the ecliptic [n10 See Ptolemy, Syntaxis 7 ...
978. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... 1, 2, 3 Forbes, R.J .: "Extracting, Smelting, and Alloying," A History of Technology, Charles Singer, et al., eds., vol. I (London 1954) Friedrich, Johannes: Extinct Languages (NY 1957) Futuyma, Douglas: Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution (NY 1983) Gardiner, Alan: Egypt of the Pharaohs, (London 1961) Garland, H. and Bannister, C.O .: Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy (London 1927) Garland, H.: "Ancient Egyptian Tools," The Cairo Scientific Journal, vol. VII, no. 84 (Sept. 1913 ...
979. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... pointed out, is a very suspect myth proposed by a male dominated anthropological circle. A very careful survey of the habits and types of prey of both typical hunters and scavengers on African game reserves has been carried out by two scientists (male), and their conclusion is that scavenging has probably had a much more pervasive effect on human evolution than has hitherto been appreciated. ' The early simple stone tools were all that were required to deal with scavenged meat and prior to 2.5 Myrs ago unprocessed stones were probably used to smash bones and obtain marrow, leaving no archaeological record. .. . of mammoths too Scientific American September 1992, pp. 130-131 Was man ...
... . 40- 43. [127] Gould, Stephen Jay. "Velikovsky in Collision." Natural History, 84 (Mar. 1975):2o, 24, 26. [128] . "Reverend Burnet's Dirty Little Planet." Natural History, 84 (Apr. 1975):26- 28. [129] . "Evolution as Fact and Theory." Discover (May 1981) Pp. 34- 37. [130] Greenberg, Lewis M. Pensée, 3:36- 37. [131] . "Atlantis." Pensée, 6:51- 54. [132] . "Sagan's Folly." Pt. I, Kronos, 3 ( ...
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