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... species, together with all the heritage of religious rites and much of the political structure of his own and other ages, were engendered in cataclysmic experiences of the past, in the Deluge (or deluges, of which there could have been more than one). After Boulanger's premature death, his works were published by Diderot, but his geological observations were not included in the printed volumes; extracts from these observations and reflections appear in a recent work on Boulanger,[21] and do not impress as compelling. But one has to keep in mind that the age of geology as a science did not start until after Boulanger's death. In Boulanger's time, geology as a ...
712. Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age by Graham Hancock (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that rising sea levels wiped out all trace of civilisation, especially evidence of survivors of an even earlier civilisation that once existed. Hancock notes that Japan was not covered in ice but ignores the fact that Siberia and a large slice of Asia were also unaffected. His argument regarding glaciation in the Himalayas is based on estimates, not scientific and geological evidence. In spite of this obfuscation, locating a flood of Biblical proportions at the end of the Ice Age during a period of catastrophic change and upheaval is a good idea. However, in order to push his boat out, Hancock is forced to trivialise and gloss over the role of seismic forces in the past and to ignore ...
713. ABC's of Astrophysics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... berserk, catatonic, orgiastic at her regular, safe, distant approach? Fossil telescopes could not affect quantavolutionary theory. They might even support the notion of cultural hologenesis that Deg espoused. The great Book of Venus was of course Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. In Deg's long acquaintanceship with the book there developed practically no significant errors of astronomy or geology, errors or omission of sources, or misreporting of legends. There is some exaggeration and "purple prose", as in the title that suggests explosive impacts between the planets Venus, Mars, Earth, and Moon, which he does not claim in the book itself. The style is less timid, hesitant, than might be ...
714. The Reversed Polarity of the Earth, Part 1 Venus Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Reversed Polarity of the Earth A thunderbolt, on striking a magnet, reverses the poles of the magnet. The terrestrial globe is a huge magnet. A short circuit between it and another celestial body could result in the north and south magnetic poles of the earth exchanging places. It is possible to detect in the geological records of the earth the orientation of the terrestrial magnetic field in past ages. "When lava cools and freezes following a volcanic outburst; it takes up a permanent magnetization dependent upon the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field at the time. This, because of small capacity for magnetization in the Earth's magnetic field after freezing, may remain ...
715. Thoth Vol III, No. 9: June 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... and Wal Thornhill EXCERPTS FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO _Seeing Red, Quasars, Cosmologies and Academic Science_ . . . . . . . .by Halton Arp- LOOKING UP by Mel Acheson At NEW SCENARIOS ON EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, the recent conference held in Italy, a paper by Franco Ricci-Lucchi parsed the decline in prestige of geology since the time of Lyell. "Geology is considered by many people as a minor or ancillary science, or even a non-science, under the influence of thinkers such as Karl Popper (what is not amenable to experiment is not falsifiable; therefore it is not science .. .) and of a restricted notion of science .. ...
716. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Velikovksy's cosmogony responds better when the person who attempts to understand it does so with an holistic rather than an analytical approach. By the same token, however, the same complexity and ambiguity implies that these myths cannot be considered to be prima facie evidence. However, if allied to the relative material in the fields of planetary exploration or historical geology, then Velikovsky's mythological material would be highly corroborative, possibly even conclusive evidence. As Grant correctly points out, to do this with historical geology demands for a start that synchronisms be drawn up between the conventional chronology and Velikovsky's. I think that Grant is probably right in his conjecture that Velikovsky might synchronise the Cenomanian Marine Transgression with the ...
717. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Jan 1988) Home | Issue Contents Reviews The Making of a Continent by Ron Redfern BBC Books, 1983 It is a great pity that Velikovsky did not espouse the theory of plate tectonics. At the time of their formulation, Wegener's ideas of continental drift were as unacceptable as Velikovsky's of the catastrophic history of the Earth, but subsequently the geological discipline has undergone a major revolution. Nowadays the far reaching implications and explanatory powers of the plate tectonics theory have assumed overwhelming proportions which at first sight relegate any other theories, such as Velikovsky's, to the dusty, forgotten corners of an antiquarian library. Within disciplines such as astronomy or ancient history were old precepts still hold sway and ...
718. The Ice Age and the Antiquity of Man, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... age. There exists no chronological table of neolithic culture because the art of writing was invented approximately at the advent of the copperthe earlyperiod of the Bronze Age. It is presumed that the neolithic man of Europe left pictures but no inscriptions, and consequently there are no means of determining the end of the Ice Age in terms of chronology. Geologists have tried to find the time of the end of the last glacial period by measuring the detritus carried by rivers from the glaciers and the deposits of detritus in lakes. The quantity carried by the Rhone from the glaciers of the Alps and the amount on the bottom of the Lake of Geneva, through which the Rhone flows, were ...
719. Mount St. Helens: Explosive evidence for catastrophe in Earth's history, by Dr Steve Austin [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:1 (Apr 2001) Home | Issue Contents Mount St. Helens: Explosive evidence for catastrophe in Earth's history by Dr Steve Austin Videotape available from Answers in Genesis, PO Box 5262, Leicester LE1 3XU. Reviewed by Laurence Dixon Dr Austin has produced the above video to illustrate the geological effects of a minor catastrophe. Mount St Helens in Washington State, USA, exploded on May 18th 1980. Many of us will have seen the explosion on television. Dr Austin describes the events since then as a miniature laboratory for catastrophic events. The mountain is reasonably accessible from many American Universities and many students will have been to ...
720. Catastrophism and the Old Testament: The Mars-Earth Conflicts [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Washington 98125) Don Patten has taken on the intriguing and daunting task of "updating and correcting" Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the famous and controversial three-book series on historic cataclysms: Worlds in Collision, Ages in Chaos, and Earth in Upheaval. Patten has already taken a first-order stab at identifying biblical happenings with historic, astronomic, and geologic data in his first two books, The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch and The Long Day of Joshua. In Mars-Earth Conflicts he pulls out all stops. Immediately in the first chapter of his book Patten comes out "swinging" at the traditional scientific community, whose point of view he labels "Uniformitarian," and at the ...
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