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76 pages of results. 521. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... . But these difficulties are minor compared to the philosophical consequences. In reconstructing catastrophic events the most important "measuring instruments" by which we "observe" planetary movements are human accounts. Already as collected in "Worlds in Collision" they range from mathematical registrations preserved on cuneiform tablets to fragments of folklore relayed by modern anthropologists from tribes approaching extinction. The overwhelming mass of these accounts are essentially conditioned by what we call "mythical thinking". As stated earlier, it seems characteristic of this kind of thinking to charge all phenomena with spiritual meaning and to find the symbols of catastrophic experience indispensable for that purpose. If we set out to find meaning in such experience, then ...
522. Buried Forests [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... that would permit them to thrive. Although Meadowcroft is merely one site, it is, nevertheless, considered the best excavated site related to these facts in North America. In both Europe and America, the floral sequences clearly follow Velikovsky's thesis as it relates to climatic conditions and pole shifts. However, because as I pointed out in The Extinction of the Mammoth, page 245, that prior to about 3,500 years ago, "the tilt of the pole to the plane of its orbit was only about 9o instead of today's tilt of 23.5 degrees," the more northerly parts of the Earth would all be shifted into the new, expanded frigid zone above ...
523. A Tale Of Two Venuses [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... "Ice Core Evidence," The Velikovskian, Vol. II, No. 4, (1994), p. 81, and "C . Leinert, et.al, "The Zodiacal Light From 1.0 to 0.3 a.u . as observed by the Helios Space 34. Charles Ginenthal, "The Extinction of the Mammoth," The Velikovskian, Vol. III, Nos. 2-3, (1997), p. 280. 35. Probes," Astron. Astrophys., Vol. 103, (1981), pp. 177-188. 36. Charles Ginenthal, "The Extinction of the Mammoth," The Velikovskian Vol. ...
524. Decades Of Darkness And Dendrochronology [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... they had wandered through a darkness that seemed to last for years.138 However, I now understand how the Earth should have been periodically covered in darkness and gloom for decades based strictly on Velikovsky's thesis. This has to do with the catastrophe which ended the hipsithermal which I claim occurred about 3500 years ago. In my book, The Extinction of the Mammoth, "Poleshift" pages 202 to 237 is outlined evidence from varves, trees and historical data that the deserts of the Earth blossomed from about 8500 to about 3500/3000 years ago. Thereafter there was a climate catastrophe which ended this fecund vegetative period and which rapidly ushered in the dessication of these great land masses ...
525. Botanical Fantasies [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... around the continents facing it is wrong. Again this is based simply on his own authority, without any citations from the scientific literature to support his claim. Like his authoritative statement on warmth being the factor which would allow trees to grow well north of their present ranges, his statement is based on nothing. What I presented in The Extinction of the Mammoth were innumerable citations of tall trees and forests growing all around the Arctic Ocean during the hipsithermal. On page 133 I cited Pielou that on the Seward Peninsula birch and spruce forests of tall trees grew facing the Arctic Ocean."162 On page 134 I cited Pielou that there was a spruce forest on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninula163 ...
526. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... as it moves along; and seeing those predictions corroborated as time passes. In contrast, degenerating programs are marked by the accretion of ad hoc hypotheses designed to protect the heart of the program [theory] from important inconsistencies, while failing to predict new and unexpected phenomena."13 13 D.K . Grayson, "Explaining Pleistocene Extinctions," Quaternary Extinctions, P.S . Martin, R.S . Klem; eds. (Tucson AZ 1984), p. 821 538 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 In this respect it is glaringly obvious that the long-established chronology requires a host of ad hoc hypotheses to protect it while ...
527. Thoth Vol I, No. 11: May 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , the astronomers have estimated that its nucleus may be about 19 to 25 miles (30 to 40 kilometers) in diameter. The average comet is thought to have a nucleus of about 3 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter, or even smaller. The comet or asteroid that struck the Earth 65 million years ago, possibly causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, was probably about 6 to 9 miles (10 to 15 kilometers) across. [W .T . Comments] The electrical parturition model of formation of highly condensed planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteorites suggests that there are no real constitutional differences between them. Comets appear as they do because of their ...
528. The Celestial Ship of North Vol II [Books]
... , simple, and divine law. "Every Star in the great Universe is a Temple of a god, and the gods themselves, the Temple of the Great Unknown God." The exoteric theologies are undergoing a new spiritual baptism, old creeds and dogmas which were instituted by priestcraft in the early centuries of more modern times will become extinct. Our rising generation is gradually harking back to the ancient undefiled teachings containing the messages of the stars, which are wonderful today, when denuded of the blind superstition and ignorance which have beclouded them. There is one great Universal Law, which is God's, and the Book of God is written in the Heavens. The old love ...
529. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... difficult to explain. ' R. M. Porter, London SE5 Catastrophic Periods of Mutation Questioned Dear Sir, I agree with much that Jill Abery says in her excellent article Punctuated Darwinism? ' (Workshop 1989:1 , pp. 17-19). Increasingly, it does seem that the characteristic pattern of the fossil record is of mass extinctions followed by explosions of new types and then periods of relative stability. However, to my mind, it is unnecessary to postulate that different evolutionary mechanisms operate during the different phases. As made clear in The Origin of Species, Darwin envisaged that natural selection worked most effectively under conditions where all ecological niches were filled, i.e ...
530. Electricity [Books] [de Grazia books]
... assumed [23]. In Brixham caves (Devonshire), the bones of fossil mammals, of the types drawn in the Caves of Dordogne, are stuck in the ceiling - so writes a correspondent, U.E . Ramage, to this author -as well as in the sides and floor. In as much as these species' extinctions were quite recent, this shows that it may not take long to hollow out a cave. Furthermore, the small cave is "prettily ornamented with concrete growths."[24] So we would appear to have a very recent catastrophic bone assemblage of animals, then or soon extincted as species, followed by a geologically instant cave-making ...
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