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76 pages of results. 571. Canyons and Channels [Books] [de Grazia books]
... time. And, as if the sections and profiles of the caņons were not enough to convince the most skeptical student, there are left hundreds of dry river-beds, within whose broad valleys, flanked by old steep banks and eloquent with proofs of once-powerful streams, there is not water enough to quench the thirst even of a uniformitarian. Those extinct rivers, dead from drought, in connection with the great caņon system, present perfectly overwhelming evidence that the general deposition of aerial water, the consequent floods and torrents, forming as they all do the distinct expression of a sharply-defined cycle of climate, as compared either with the water phenomena of the immediately preceding Pliocene age or with our ...
572. James Hutton: A Non-inductive, Theological Catastrophist [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... oceans of increasing depth. In most cases, fully marine strata lie directly atop terrestrial beds, with no signs of smooth transition. The world of dinosaurs does not yield gradually to the realm of mammals; instead, dinosaurs disappear from the record in apparent concert with about half the species of marine organisms in one of the five major mass extinctions of life's history. (11) Gould's statement is merely a subdued echo of what the19th century catastrophists had documented again and again. Velikovsky presented Georges Cuvier's words, which long ago said what Gould proposes, in a more honest, catastrophist manner: The breaking to pieces, the raising up and overturning of the older strata [of ...
573. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Pensee]
... of the mountains, from the deserts, jungles, tundras, lakes, rivers and waterfalls, told the same story- documented in every latitude and in every longitude. This evidence is presented in Earth in Upheaval, which I kept free from any bit of testimony that can be classified as human heritage. The scenes of devastation, mass extinction of many species in circumstances that are by far in excess of what can be considered as local catastrophe, the simultaneous change of climate all over the globe thirty-four and twenty-seven centuries ago, the drop of the level of the ocean and many other phenomena observed, could not be accounted for but by paroxysms in which the entire Earth was ...
574. A Reading of the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Pensee]
... spectacle of a pharaoh who in mid-reign ceased to identify himself with Horus and championed the cause of Seth instead; he changed his name from Sekhemib to Perabsen, and in the first of the three names in standard Old Kingdom titulary where a drawing of the hawk of Horus should appear he substituted the dog-like animal of Seth (a species now extinct). Seth also appears on a seal found in his tomb which reads "the god of Ombos [Seth's cult centre] to his son Perabsen." In this case, too, all the royal tombs were found badly damaged by fire.4 The next two kings for whom there is any archaeological authentication called themselves Kha-Sekhem and ...
575. Exploding Planets and Non-exploding Universesed [Articles]
... Cretaceous period a giant meteor struck the Earth."...We lost our soundtrack. You can see the visual effects here, which are the principal thing of interest anyway. The soundtrack is just basically saying that as the effects of the dust rise after the explosion and cover the Earth, vegetation dies out, the species go extinct, and it's almost impossible for the larger creatures to survive. An apology for the technical difficulties. Now we are back to the exploded planet hypothesis itself. The hypothesis proposes that there was a former planet, that the asteroids that are found between Mars and Jupiter are not the result of a planet that never formed, but rather ...
... , and in 1848 a volcanic convulsion resulted in a great shoal and shallowing of the sea. In 1866 there was another alleged eruption, and from that time until 1925 Santorin, despite its reputation, lay unharmed. On August 9, 1925, just near the crater of Old Kammeni, in a state of solfatara, if not deemed extinct, a submarine volcano began to belch forth stones and scoriae, resulting in a panic among the inhabitants. This activity, as mentioned earlier, coincided with a similar eruption of Mount Shirane, Japan, Mount Omatepe, Nicaragua, earthquake shocks registered in the Mediterranean on the one side and also felt in California on the other, as ...
577. "Cenocatastrophism" [Articles]
... Without quite fully admitting it, science has moved on to the question, What kinds of catastrophism is it most eager to see adopted as models for future research? Cenocatastrophism designates a model for research which assumes that global catastrophes have occurred recently. The next question is clearly, How recent is recent? The very age which began with the extinction of the dinosaurs is called, as just noted, the "Cenozoic", and by that standard recent is any time within the last 65 million years. But "recent" is of course relative to an observer, and therefore I find it legitimate to use the prefix "ceno-" here to mean "within human memory ...
578. Thoth Vol IV, No 9: May 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... was published, the viewpoint of orthodox science has changed dramatically, leading some to say that the only mistake Velikovsky made was presenting his theory at the wrong historical time. Over the intervening decades various innovators began to investigate catastrophic possibilities previously ignored. One of the milestones in this trend was the hypothesis of Leo and Walter Alvarez, claiming dinosaur extinction by asteroidal impact. While the initial response of official science was ridicule, over time the hypothesis began to gain general acceptance within the scientific community. Soon thereafter, the respected biologist Stephen Jay Gould acknowledged the occasional catastrophe in a theory of "punctuated equilibrium." And the British astronomers Victor Clube and William Napier opened the door even ...
579. The Heavenly Host [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the gods. At the same time, rule by divine kings is easier because the source of the rule is a god. He claim to divinity varies with the secularism of the elite and masses, so that it is by no means rare that the god is usurped, overthrown, and killed. In some forms of society, now extinct, kings were not only gods or semi-divine but were used as sacrifices regularly or in emergencies (often but by no means always in the form of temporarily appointed surrogates). We see once again, as we no repeatedly and more clearly than in other life spheres, the basic functioning of religion to secure humans from fear of celestial ...
580. Can Psychoanalysis be a Science? An Introduction to Velikovsky [Journals] [Horus]
... story itself, vividly recreated from ancient myths and traditions gathered from all corners of the globe. In the same way that a psychoanalyst uncovers buried memories in patients from clues in their dreams, fantasies, and patterns of behavior, Velikovsky had traced the threads of human memory to times of violent natural chaos that brought life to the edge of extinction. Assembled together into a mass of concordances that one modern critic (Sagan) has called "stunning" a new conception of the past unfolded in a drama more vivid and real than the best of Hollywood and more compelling than the classics of "end of the world" sci-fi. The public was fascinated. Despite the popularity of ...
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