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76 pages of results. 481. Forum [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... hominem quote by Einstein is an obfuscation and possibly an implicit repudiation of his book, The Reversing Earth. My aside states: there simply is no physical evidence for a geographical inversion ever having happened. ' Warlow's book discusses four lines of physical evidence that supposedly support their occurrence: geomagnetic reversals, ice ages, sea-level changes, and mass extinctions. Perhaps Warlow refrained from mentioning any of these because he now realises that these events are inadequate as evidence since they can be readily explained by other less extravagant processes. Surely Warlow is being facetious when he asks if, for physical evidence, I am waiting for an inscription in God's own handwriting. I believe the best physical evidence ...
482. Ice Fields of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... world, take their origin usually in a U-shaped nook of a mountain. Their ice forms and slowly slides downwards through valleys, carrying drift and ending in melting waters. They abrade and pluck the drift as they go along. They are broad, and they terminate in broad curls, from which streams form and run off. Many "extinct" glacier forms exist, indicating that once there may have been much more cold and ice. That is, unless these "fossil" glaciers were pointed towards the sun in a global Earth tilt, and melted, or once were a part of a large crustal lateral avalanche that thrust whole areas away from the polar regions. Or ...
483. Revelation and Catastrophe during the Christian Era: a Basis for Historical Interpolation and Future Extrapolation. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of meteoritic composition which was continuously replenished as Jupiter perturbed the main asteroid belt. Furthermore, a relationship was now perceived between impact catastrophes and the discontinuities in geological and biological evolution - so-called punctuations. These new ideas even appeared to be virtually secure as a result of the important announcement in 1980 by Luis Alvarez that the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction horizon was closely associated with a major accretion of cosmic material by the Earth. At the same time, however, it was rather obvious that the new synthesis said very little about the cometary material falling upon the Earth which was one or two orders of magnitude greater than the meteoritic supply. Indeed, it said virtually nothing about the ...
484. The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After [Books]
... ill-treated by their father, has extended to new generations which were exempt from such treatment for the very reason that their father had been eliminated." Also on page 158, a little farther down, we read: "Without the assumption of a collective mind, which makes it possible to neglect the interruptions of mental acts caused by the extinction of the individual, social psychology in general cannot exist. Unless psychical processes were continued from one generation to another, if each generation were obliged to acquire its attitude to life anew, there would be no progress in this field and next to no development. This gives rise to two further questions: how much can we attribute to ...
... of the intermittent class, but even with these occur quiescent intervals of very unequal duration, sometimes even of centuries. Vesuvius, for example, between 1139 and 1306 for 167 years closed up and lay quiescent, a lake and chestnut groves occupied the site of the crater, and as is at present the case with so many of the extinct craters of the Auvergne, Etna, the Vivarais, etc., the superficial scoriae having become decomposed and turned into very fertile soil, vine- yards and other fruits of the earth were grown, forests grew up and decayed, when suddenly a great eruption took place and the erstwhile cultivated lands became a yawning and burning abyss. After ...
... , and this for the reason that meteors approach us from the north pole of the ecliptic and are therefore more inclined to be drawn in north of the Equator than south of it. Assuming this to be accurate, it leads to the presumption that over a very great period of time this principle has held and that where we find now extinct fields of volcanic activity, such as among the Rocky Mountains of the United States, the once volcanic fields in Great Britain and Ireland, from the granite masses of the north to the sandstone regions of Devon, the Alps of Switzerland and other places now in the Temperate or Northern Temperate regions were once within the charmed circle much closer ...
487. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... (i .e . a comet with appreciable electro-magnetic field) then tippling should always be the case. Nel Kluitman, Campestro, Switzerland. Dinosaur Graveyards Dear Sir, As regards "Death of the Dinosaurs" in Workshop vol.2 no.4 pp.6-7, why do so many commentators make such a mystery of the dinosaur extinction? There is much more evidence for the manner of their extinction than for other theories which scientists seem quite happy to accept as fact, as for instance, the "Big Bang" theory of the creation of the Universe! Velikovsky has set the scene in Earth in Upheaval , and North America provides specific evidence on the dinosaurs' ...
488. Cosmic and Terrestrial Lightning [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Mars. They believed that a portent or an inducement to the awful act came from rituals performed by their King [7 ]. This was about the time that Rome was founded, likely by near descendants of fugitives from grave disasters in the Near East [8 ]. The famous Seven Hills of Rome themselves may be a set of extinct volcanos, according to an early French geologist. Since few scientists believe in cosmic thunderbolts, this report of Lake Bolsena has never been thoroughly investigated. The Italian anthropologist-geologist Leonardi assured me that the lake basin is a typical extinct volcano. Velikovsky accepted the lightning thesis [9 ]. Geographer Donald Patten calls it a meteoric crater-lake because it ...
489. Benoît De Maillet (1656-1738): A Forerunner of the Theory of the Desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea [Journals] [SIS Review]
... landscape, the regional and global climate, and the distribution and evolution of flora and fauna. The Mediterranean basin became a desert, its climate (due to an increase in the Antarctic ice cap) was cooler and more arid than in the circum-areas, allowing a new distribution of plants and animals between Europe and Africa, leading to the extinction of a number of species and thus having an influence on their evolutionary aspects [8 , 9]. Mörner [10], however, thinks that there was no such global cooling. This regression could be accounted for by a change (lowering) of the geoid under the continents. This would cause a fall in the ground ...
490. H. H. Hess and My Memoranda [Journals] [Pensee]
... evolution based mainly on cataclysmic events. My opponent was to have been Princeton professor of biology, Colin Pittendrigh. There was a mutual respect between us (earlier he had visited me and also inscribed to me a biology text which he co-authored with G. G. Simpson, my early antagonist), but Pittendrigh insisted that the problem of extinction in the animal kingdom should not be a part of the debate. I could not see how the two parts of the evolutionary problem- the evolution of new species and the extinction of the old- could be separated in a meaningful debate. It appeared that the friendly relations between us were in jeopardy. Hess, without fanfare, offered to ...
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