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76 pages of results. 511. A Challenge to the Integrity of Science? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a letter to the journal, published in the issue dated 4th April 1974, Dr MacKie noted: The example I selected in "A Challenge to the Integrity of Science?" to show that some of Velikovsky's claims have been disproved has turned out since to be not suitable for that purpose. The subject was the time of the final extinction of the mammoths and I noted then that radiocarbon dates for mammoth remains had all turned out to be many thousand of years earlier than the 15th century BC, one of two eras selected by Velikovsky as a possible time for their extinction (the other being the 8th century BC). However in the journal Radiocarbon (vol 15, ...
512. Radiant Genesis [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , p277, Pittman). Where steady magnetism, regardless of strength, seems to be beneficial (Hays), magnetic variability seems to induce pathological effects, even in modern humans; coronary arrest correlates strongly with extended intervals of disturbed magnetism (Malin), psychiatric hospital admissions correlate less strongly (Friedman et al.). Sudden biological extinction has been linked to periods of magnetic confusion in the paleontological record (Whyte, p681). Such periods, in our view, would be more likely produced by cosmic large body encounters that would inject magnetic disturbances along with other disastrous effects upon the biosphere. To summarize, in regard to the time available for the origin and development ...
513. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of Uranus Minor at the time of the Lunar eruption, which not only brought new waters but also removed some water, and finally the great Noachian deluge of the end of the Saturnian age. LUNAR WORSHIP In Lunarian times, vast regions of the Earth disappeared and all others were devastated. Animal and plant species would have been threatened with extinction. The human species was no exception ; from millions, it probably decreased to a few groups, existing far from one another, small family bands accompanied by individual survivors of foreign groups. The collective memories of the groups recalled the vanished age of Urania and the civilizations that had been blasted from the Earth, drowned, or shaken ...
514. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 25 kilometres per second. The resulting impact energies readily explain the craters observed on planets, and the theory tells us that cratering itself is an episodic phenomenon. Missiles of 10 kilometres or more strike the Earth every 100 million years or so (within episodes of cratering), and it has become increasingly clear in recent years that the major extinctions, like the demise of the dinosaurs, are explicable as side-effects of such major impacts. Lesser impacts which are more common are quite capable of reversing the Earth's magnetic field, so with every episode of cometary activity producing about 20 missiles that reverse the magnetic field, there is almost certainly one larger missile that is capable of wiping out ...
515. Solaria Binaria [Books] [de Grazia books]
... as will be detailed in the next chapter. The Moon was absent from the sky. The climate was equable and warm. The atmosphere contained oxygen and supported a nitrogen cycle. Most of the species of today existed. So did dinosaurs and nimble hominids. Ecological development proceeded according to uniformitarian principles of a competition for survival. But the extinction of a species was a rare event. So, too, was the birth of a species. As a condition gradually changed, so changed a ratio between and among species; a biological equilibrium was maintained, without abrupt interruption. The crust of Pangea was sial, heavy in silicon and aluminum elements, as is the crust today ...
516. Sinking and Rising Lands [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ocean of Tethys that may be called the Gobi Sea. It replaced the Tethys geosyncline and the remnant of old Mediterranean which are more plausible successors to the ancient mythical Sea of Tethys. It gathered waters in the great basin that is now the Gobi desert or "the Sea of Sand," as the Chinese call it. Like the extinct Sahara Sea, the Gobi Sea lasted long enough to attract many human settlements to its shores. Then it was emptied in a great flood and its cultures disappeared, as described earlier. Thus there were perhaps three Seas of Tethys, the latest being the Mediterranean Sea of recorded history. The first would be the Pangean shallow sea that ...
517. Floods and Tides [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of the land, perhaps folding and deep burial of animals. Similar deposits are found 1300 miles away in Burma, cut away to view in the valley of the Irawaddy River. Two great zones of fossils are separated by 4000 feet of sand. Petrified trees pervade the fossils in the thousands. Writes Velikovsky: "Animals met death and extinction by the elementary forces of nature, which also uprooted forests and from Kashmir to Indo-China threw sand over species and genera in mountains thousands of feet high."[19] Other instances may be added to extend the area involved in disaster much further, probably to the limits of proto-Indian civilization, and indeed throughout the world. The ...
518. High Energy from Space [Books] [de Grazia books]
... move not locally but over long distances. Different layers of the crust may move at different speeds and for some miles down. The Alberta Canadian Rockies are thrusted and folded sedimentary rock propelled from a long distance away and piled up many thousands of feet. These sediments left behind them the basic shield rock [10]. The number of extinct volcanoes far exceeds the number that are active. Iceland has 107 active volcanoes, but thousand of craters, most of them definitely extinct, all young. Of its great network of fissure volcanoes, some have erupted disastrously in recent history. Lava beds not only line the ocean basins but are interlarded among pebble, rock, and sand ...
519. Giants In The Earth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... fairly reasonably modus operandi for the Pteranodon: It had a throat pouch like a pelican and has been found with fish fossils indicating a pelican like existence (soaring over the waves and snapping up fish without landing).(10) That should indicate that, peculiarly amongst all Earth creatures, the Pteranodon should have been immune from the great extinctions of past ages. In Earth in Upheaval, Velikovsky noted that large animals had the greatest difficulty getting to high ground and other safe havens at the times of floods and the global catastrophes of past ages and were, therefore, peculiarly susceptible to extinction.(11) Men and animals would hide on mountain tops, but most would ...
520. Comets -- the Cause of Historic and Prehistoric Catastrophes [Articles]
... , that's the momentum, it's straightforward mechanics to work out what these encounters will do on the Earth when they happen. It's most exciting of course when you look at the top end, the biggest bodies that are likely to hit the Earth. These are about 10 km in diameter. These are the ones that we now suspect cause extinctions. You've read a lot in the papers recently, of the discovery of a layer of iridium at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary that seems to be linked with a possible encounter with such a body and which most certainly would have wiped out a large part of life on the Earth's surface. Don't get me wrong- it doesn't wipe ...
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