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169 pages of results. 811. Sceptics, Skeptics, Dissidents, Cranks and . . . [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... given over in the The Skeptical Inquirer to attacks on the work of people like Velikovsky. If you read his work (books such as Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos), you will find that it has nothing whatsoever to do with the paranormal. His only crime was to develop unorthodox theories in cosmology, geology and ancient history. He was not a charlatan either - if you compare his work with, for example, rogues such as von Daniken, you will realise that, right or wrong, it is quite different in character and standing. He was simply a dissident. Now you will see why I questioned CSICOP's failure to scrutinise orthodox ...
812. In Memoriam: Dr Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... not be faulted for not maintaining a hot line. I was even justified - more foolish thought - in being undiscoverable, for in the labyrinthine Princeton libraries, who could find me, and it was Velikovsky's fault; I might be in the religious section, or in archaeology or the astronomy collection, or the art library, or in geology; I might be anywhere in the acres of buildings and shelves, thanks to Velikovsky. Survivor's guilt, compounding the loss and mourning, so tattooed are we by the ancient great losses - Noah naked drunk on the first post-diluvial vintage, the unworthy remnant brought out of Egypt, Ipuwer's lament of the survivors. The great man was ...
813. A Record of Success [Journals] [Pensee]
... of any specific prediction you made that has since been proven to be false. I suspect the merit lies in that you have a good basic background in the natural sciences and you are quite uninhibited by the prejudices and probability taboos which confine the thinking of most of us."- the late H.H . Hess, chairman, geology department, Princeton, and chairman, Space Science Board, National Academy of Science, in a letter to Velikovsky for public record, 1963. Many scientists and popularizers of science have charged that Velikovsky's successful predictions are no more than coincidence, that they are ad hoc rather than the result of deduction from a consistent, unified set of ...
... delineated by Velikovsky. Meteorite thunder Sagan states, "the statement (p . 283) [in Worlds in Collision] that Meteorites when entering the Earth's atmosphere, make a dreadful din, ' when they are generally observed to be silent."61 Velikovsky answered this, remarking that George P. Merrill, Head Curator, Department of Geology, U.S . National Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, wrote, "a long series of reports of loud explosions accompanying the fall of meteorites. Meteorites are a subject that belongs in Sagan's own field, but he does not know that they can make noise. For example, in Emmet County Iowa, on May ...
815. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that they do not want to examine the details of dating methods; yet flaws in those methods are easy to find. While offering no solutions, Milton outlined the serious problems inherent in three distinct dating systems, (a ) the radioactive decay method, (b ) the astronomical method, and (c ) the dating of strata or geological method. Dr Earl Milton: "Everybody who gets involved with the Velikovsky synthesis, or resynthesis, of history, is quickly introduced to the difficulty of talking about catastrophes several hundreds of years ago, in a world where catastrophes are only allowed several billions, of thousands of million years ago." Certain heavy elements decay radioactively into ...
816. About the SIS. How to Join [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... response to a growing interest in the works of modern catastrophists, notably the highly controversial Dr Immanuel Velikovsky. In his books Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos he argued that the ancient myths and sources such as the Bible contained records of planetary catastrophes in the Earth's history and, based on this, he suggested that geology, cosmology and ancient history should be reconsidered. In cosmology he proposed that electricity played a much larger role than in the orthodox scheme and that Venus in particular was a young planet. In ancient history, he proposed that the orthodox chronology should be severely shortened to eliminate false identifications and fictitious dark ages'. Over the years, ...
817. CHZ and Solar System Stability [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... on Venus, then the Earth would have had to develop a runaway greenhouse effect. To argue that for some unknown reason it did not occur is nothing but hand waving. We must also consider the nature of the oceans. Carbon dioxide plays an important role in the chemistry of the oceans. As William W. Rubey stated in "Geologic History of Sea Water": Carbon plays a significant part in the chemistry of sea water and in the realm of living matter. The amount now buried as carbonates and organic carbon in sedimentary rocks is about 600 times as great as that in today's atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. If only 1/ 100 of this buried carbon were ...
818. ... in future issues [Journals] [SIS Review]
... cometary catastrophism - while it differs from Velikovsky's on major points, it takes into account upheavals in historical times, such as those of the Exodus, that figure prominently in Velikovsky's work. Further contributions from the American researcher M. M. Mandelkehr on the evidence for a major global catastrophe around 2300 BC, including studies of the climatological, geological, astronomical and mythological evidence. A retrospective assessment of Velikovsky's scholarship from Professor Robert Hewsen, Director of the Center for Velikovskian and Interdisciplinary Studies, Glassboro College, New Jersey, with responses from other scholars. Dr Trevor Palmer, Senior Lecturer in biochemistry at Trent Polytechnic, Britain, and an authority in the field of mutational change, ...
819. About the SIS. How to Join [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... response to a growing interest in the works of modern catastrophists, notably the highly controversial Dr Immanuel Velikovsky. In his books Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos he argued that the ancient myths and sources such as the Bible contained records of planetary catastrophes in the Earth's history and, based on this, he suggested that geology, cosmology and ancient history should be reconsidered. In cosmology he proposed that electricity played a much larger role than in the orthodox scheme and that Venus in particular was a young planet. In ancient history, he proposed that the orthodox chronology should be severely shortened to eliminate false identifications and fictitious dark ages'. Over the years, ...
820. Chapter 7 Iron, Diorite and Other Hard Rock [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... way for the copper blade by scratching with flint points, as it was thought that 13 Mark Lehner, op.cit., p. 210 14 "emery," Encyclopedia Britannica, Micropedia, vol. III (Chicago 1982) p. 875 15 Richard Bates and J.A ., Jackson, eds.: Dictionary of Geological Terms, 3rd ed. (NY 1984), p. 163 and 114 16 ibid., p. 163 204 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 the latter might have been a method employed by the ancients, and it was quite impossible to start a passage way [a groove] with the ...
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