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76 pages of results. 431. "Sit Down Before A Fact As A Little Child". File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... paleobotanist, whose name was familiar to me,(3 ) I asked him a question from his field and concerning his part of the country (he had come from California to attend the meeting): "How do you explain the finding of human bones in the asphalt pit of La Brea under the bones of a vulture of an extinct species?" He was forced to admit: "I don't know." Then he told me that Harper's had asked him to write a rebuttal of my theory but that he had refused in order not to give more publicity to my work. As soon as he finished saying this, he repeated it. On leaving, I ...
432. Phillip E. Johnson, "Darwin on Trial" [Journals] [Aeon]
... species followed by stases in the fossil record hanging over Darwinian evolution, Gould and Eldredge tried to sidestep the issue with their thesis of punctuated equilibrium, equating stasis with "no results" in an evaluation of the fossil record. Unfortunately this put the whole playing field back in the same paradigm as before, and their subsequent appeals to catastrophic extinctions said nothing at all about step-by-step gradual speciation. Further, the idea of punctuated equilibrium giving rise to new species by a contrived and unspecified mechanism of jump-starts has prompted the orthodox Darwinists to consider the GouldEldredge school as something approaching closet Marxism, in spite of the fact that no consensus whatsoever of any mechanism for speciation has yet appeared. ...
433. Synodos, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... basin was regarded as the water-filled crater of a volcano. However, its area of 117 square kilometres exceeds by far that of the largest known craters on the earth- those in the Andes in South America and those in the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands in the Pacific. Hence, the idea that the lake is the crater of an extinct volcano has recently been questioned. Moreover, although the bottom of the lake is of lava, and the ground around the lake abounds with ashes and lava and columns of basalt, the talus of a volcano is lacking. Taking what Pliny said of an interplanetary discharge together with what has actually been found at Volsinium, one may wonder ...
434. In Memoriam: Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... unto Eternity! ' . . . Most musical of mourners, weep anew! Not all to that bright station dared to climb; And happier they their happiness who knew, Whose tapers yet burn through that night of time In which suns perished; others more sublime, Struck by the envious wrath of man or God, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime; And some yet live, treading the thorny road, Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode .. .. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not ...
435. Zetetic Scholar Nos. 3 & 4 April 1979 [Articles]
... they have grasped what they were criticizing: they think they know the answer to it before they know anything about it.53 Actually, neither intuitive acceptance nor intuitive rejection has any more validity than the conclusions drawn from the data provided by Robert McNamara's Pentagon computers which assured him that the Communist national movement in Vietnam was on the verge of extinction. Those who beg the question about Velikovsky are depending upon luck rather than analysis for the vindication of their position. We must have the courage to face the past or we will not have the means to confront the future. Indeed, it is opportune to appreciate this interdisciplinary synthesis which explains so much and provides a unified perspective to ...
436. Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton (Book review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... carried out by the One True God of Neo-Semitic faith. But most pre-Christian peoples were polytheistic. Among them, scholarly priests as well as laymen saw creation as pluralistic, one god's creation being opposed by the divergent creation of another, and both being threatened with destruction by a third. This view of creation and destruction (or speciation and extinction) is still common among non-monistic Hindus. It accords better than does Biblical creationism with the paradoxical mixture of interdependence and antagonism that zoologists and botanists encounter in surveying relations between individual organisms, populations, and species. In addition to these two types of creationism, there is a third type, prevalent chiefly (but not exclusively) among ...
437. Gravity and Pterodactyls [Journals] [Aeon]
... to roam presents something of a paradox. We have found that astronauts lose bone mass and are subject to muscular atrophy under extended micro-gravity conditions. Of course, this presents an extreme case, but extrapolating toward some optimum gravity condition leaves the impression that dinosaurs and their megafauna relatives fared quite well in their environment for several epochs, despite massive extinctions that brought each to a close. We do not yet know if such an optimum gravitational state exists. So, on first principles, a higher gravity would tend to increase bone mass and muscular development, and I'm quite sure that a young and growing Baluchiterium took full advantage of what was then available. It's really quite elementary when ...
438. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... obtained as photocopies.) 3. Discussions at The Nottingham Meeting 8th October 1989 (9 pages) We are very grateful to Birgit Liesching who recorded the Question Time at last year's Nottingham Meeting and who has made the typed transcript available to us. The material is divided approximately equally between the question/answer sessions following Milton Zysman's paper titled Extinction and Co-evolution' and Bernard Newgrosh's talk on scientific dating methods. The main discussion in the latter section revolved around some very interesting input from Alasdair Beal. Please apply direct to Mrs Val Pearce (please note new address - see p. 1). Cost UK £2 Europe £2 elsewhere $3 .50 4. The ...
439. Time, Electricity and Quantavolution [Books] [de Grazia books]
... instrument for scientific inquiry as useful as and perhaps superior to that allowed us by evolution. We find that the morphology of the Earth and the patterns and compositions of the skies bespeak quantavolutions. In biology, we see in the decline of evolutionary power over time, in the absence of transitional types in evolutionary branching, in the waves of extinction of species, and in the failure of evolution to provide an internal guiding dynamic, sufficient reason to promote the concept of quantavolution. The guiding dynamic for quantavolution, whether in biology, geology or astronomy, may be electricity, a "strong force" that has been generally accorded a weak place in most sciences. For several reasons ...
440. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , for example, entitled "Tales of Dim Eden", starts with some information about brain waves, shows us the electroencephalogram patterns characteristic of waking, sleeping and dreaming, and provides some speculations about the function of sleep. We then move on to a discussion of the brain size of dinosaurs, some speculations on the causes of their extinction, and the suggestion that the evolutionary conflict between mammals and reptiles is mirrored in the story of the serpent in Eden. We read about the Komodo dragon of Indonesia, "a predator exhibiting a chilly fixity of purpose", and are told that stories of dragons are common in all mythology and folk tales. We then return to ...
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