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76 pages of results. 191. Anomalistics - a New Field of Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... is provided by quasi-stellar objects, or quasars, which are star-sized bodies that appear to radiate as much energy as entire galaxies do. What this implies, in turn, is that quasars are powered by an energy source which exceeds that of thermonuclear energy by about ten orders of magnitude. A good example of a biological anomaly is provided by extinction, the death not just of individual organisms but of entire taxa, ranging in scope from species to phyla. Extinction is anomalous in both a general and a specific sense. In its general sense, extinction is not explained by the prevalent Darwinian theory of environmental unfitness, since the only evidence for that unfitness is the extinction itself. ...
192. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... is provided by quasi-stellar objects, or quasars, which are star-sized bodies that appear to radiate as much energy as entire galaxies do. What this implies, in turn, is that quasars are powered by an energy source which exceeds that of thermonuclear energy by about ten orders of magnitude. A good example of a biological anomaly is provided by extinction, the death not just of individual organisms but of entire taxa, ranging in scope from species to phyla. Extinction is anomalous in both a general and a specific sense. In its general sense, extinction is not explained by the prevalent Darwinian theory of environmental unfitness, since the only evidence for that unfitness is the extinction itself. ...
193. Quantalism: The Big Picture [Journals] [Aeon]
... of global extent, none of these disruptions have occurred since the appearance of human beings. Caenocatastrophism is the theory that global disruptions have occurred within the memory of mankind. Palaeocatastrophism, though long out of favor, has made an undeniable come-back in recent years as a consequence of the Alvarez theory that a late Cretaceous asteroid strike brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs and related fauna. [4 ] Caenocatastrophism, however, has yet to regain the acceptability that it enjoyed in the 18th century. To the temporal distinction between palaeocatastrophism and caenocatastrophism, I would like to add an etiological distinction between endocatastrophism and exocatastrophism. Endocatastrophism is the theory, set forth by Brendan Stannard, [5 ...
194. Shameless Promotion of Pet Paradigms [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... switch to a new way of seeing is needed: not just a new paradigm for certain disciplines, but an interdisciplinary unifying paradigm. Like the "gestalt switch", where you see a duck in the lines you previously saw as a rabbit, a paradigm shift changes perception. But this time the requisite switch will result in the mass extinction of the big conceptual populations of the present universe and a re-population with entirely new species. For example, the domain of validity of the familiar universal gravitation (F =GMmr-2) has shrunk to the confines of the solar system. Stars in the Milky Way more nearly obey F=GMmr-1. And with the discovery of intrinsic redshifts ...
195. Quantalism: the Big Picture [Articles]
... of global extent, none of these disruptions have occurred since the appearance of human beings. Caenocatastrophism is the theory that global disruptions have occurred within the memory of mankind. Palaeocatastrophism, though long out of favor, has made an undeniable come-back in recent years as a consequence of the Alvarez theory that a late Cretaceous asteroid strike brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs and related fauna . Caenocatastrophism, however, has yet to regain the acceptability that it enjoyed in the 18th century. To the temporal distinction between palaeocatastrophism and caenocatastrophism, I would like to add an etiological distinction between endocatastrophism and exocatastrophism. Endocatastrophism is the theory, set forth by Brendan Stannard , that global disruptions-at least those ...
196. The Dawnseekers: the First History of American Paleontology by Robert West Howard [Journals] [Kronos]
... investigations and resulting interpretations. It is thus refreshing to note two recent books which present the development of geopaleontology and the discovery of dinosaurs: Robert West Howard's The Dawnseekers (1975) and Adrian J. Desmond's The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (1976). Today, naturalists must reconsider the old explanation of dinosaurs and the previous reasons given for their eventual extinction. The present view of things is best understood within the historical perspective. Among the Presocratics, Xenophanes recognized both the historical and biological significance of fossils, i.e . he held that they are the remains of once-living organisms preserved in rock strata. Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Empedocles also supported evolutionary concepts.(1 ...
197. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Leading opponents of the impact theory have been quick to claim that, as the Earth's orientation to the Sun was similar in the Cretaceous to that at present, these dinosaurs must have been capable of surviving at least two months' annual darkness. William Clemens of Berkeley (see WORKSHOP 6:2 , p.30) claims that extinction due to the darkness and cold caused by the dust of an impact event is therefore highly unlikely. NEW SCIENTIST printed a letter by A. N. Beale of Leeds on 26.9 .85, p.80 pointing out the unsatisfactory nature of dating methods (Clemens had dated a volcanic ash sample as younger than 65 Myrs ...
198. On the Pendulum Experiment (Vox Popvli) [Journals] [Kronos]
... mammoths were well adapted to extreme cold.(5 ) Cited for support were the mammoths' 9 cm thick layer of fat and double thickness of fur, the same reasons that Farrand asserted three times in his article. After additional arguments, Wm. White concluded that " . . . no catastrophic event need be invoked to explain the extinction of the mammoth . . ." , thereby mimicking Farrand's: "The death of the giants can be explained as a hazard of tundra life without evoking catastrophic events." When Fate's editor, Curtis Fuller, reported William White's remarks, John White rebutted with the lead letter in the next issue.(6 ) He emphasized that ...
199. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... species has appeared in the course of recorded history. The most that one might expect to find in the way of biota in a wholly uniformitarian world is an astronomically large population of microorganisms of a single species. PREHISTORY AND CATASTROPHISM Since the time of Georges Cuvier, paleontologists have agreed that most of the organic taxa of the past are now extinct. Familiar examples of such extinct taxa are trilobite arthropods, seed-fern plants and oreopithecian apes. The only extinctions known during the historical period are of species whose demise was brought about, directly or indirectly, by human agency. Familiar examples of man's non-human victims are the passenger pigeon, the Irish elk and the dodo. To a catastrophist ...
200. Catastrophist Geology [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... . When they consider this definition thoughtfully, many geologists realize that they do not really agree with it. Too many events in the Earth's history do not fit a uniformitarian system - enormous calderas, plateau basalts, ice ages, alpine nappes, bone breccias, the sudden appearance of diversified life at the close of the Precambrian, the abrupt extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites, and so on. In a uniformitarian system the sedimentological and paleontological records are contradictory; if we assume uninterrupted sedimentation, we have to accept catastrophes in evolution; if we do not accept catastrophes in evolution we have to postulate major gaps in the sedimentary record. We can of course, by retrograde extrapolation over ...
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