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169 pages of results. 881. Survival (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... crucial advance for the science of biology. It turns out that the concept tells us nothing about how living things evolve, though it indicates in the broadest terms why they undergo changes through time - change is necessary for survival. To the further question of why these changes are almost invariably in the direction of increasing complexity (on this the geological record is unequivocal), we can answer simply that increasing complexity was advantageous to survival. This statement is no longer tautological because we can measure complexity independently. We have still said nothing of the actual mechanism of the transformation of life on this planet through the aeons of geological history. That is a different problem. But if we ...
882. An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC. Part II: The Climatological Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... volcanic eruptions may be self-governing, in that the increase in sulphate aerosol mass density in the atmosphere results in rapid particle growth with faster settling times. Since the dust settles faster than the aerosols, the cumulative effect of multiple volcanic eruptions would be more in terms of intensity than time duration [108]. I should also comment that the geological evidence in my next article includes a possible significant, but only modest, peak in volcano activity [for 2300 BC]; in fact, the nature of the eruption process itself would probably preclude a very large peak of activity. Volcanic eruptions must therefore be tagged as questionable in regard to causing a long term global cooling. Even ...
883. Preface (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... historical-cosmological story of this book is based on the evidence of historical texts of many peoples around the globe, on classical literature, on epics of northern races, on sacred books of the peoples of the Orient and Occident, on traditions and folklore of primitive peoples, on old astronomical inscriptions and charts, on archaeological finds, and also on geological and paleontological material. If cosmic upheavals occurred in the historical past, why does not the human race remember them, and why was it necessary to carry on research to find out about them? I discuss this problem in the Section "The Collective Amnesia." The task I had to accomplish was not unlike that faced by a ...
884. Precursors [Journals] [Kronos]
... oppression of the powerful, he is not led to suspect that Nature also had her internecine wars, and that the surface of the globe has been broken up by revolutions and catastrophes. But his ideas change as soon as he digs into that soil which now presents so peaceful an aspect.... If there is anything certain in geology, it is that the surface of our globe has been the victim of a great and sudden revolution, whose date cannot go back more than five or six thousand years. "But these countries which today are inhabited, and which the last revolution has turned into dry land, have already been inhabited formerly, if not by men ...
885. Comets Pummeled Earth 36 Million Years Ago [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... indirect evidence that a gravitational perturbation of the Oort comet cloud outside the orbit of Pluto was responsible for sending a wave of comets swarming toward the center of the solar system. Shoemaker's Legacy of Discovery In a paper published today [22 May 1998] in the journal Science, a group from the California Institute of Technology, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff office, and the Coldigioco Geological Observatory in Italy, report their evidence of a very large increase in the amount of extraterrestrial dust hitting Earth in the late Eocene period. ...
886. The Stormer Of The Walls, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... This theory is based on the assumption that originally the earth was liquid. The folding of the crust creates mountains and causes earthquakes. Another theory sees the cause of earthquakes in the migration of land masses, even of entire continents. This theory, too, is based on the concept of a thin crust resting on a viscous substratum. Geological and faunal similarities of South America and West Africa suggested their separation in recent geological times, and their migration in opposite directions. According to this theory, thermal convection is the mechanical cause of this migration, with magma supplying the heat. Still another theory supposes that there are great mountains and deep valleys on the inner surface of the ...
887. 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, ...
888. To Begin the World Over Again [Journals] [Aeon]
... the unfamiliar categories of plasma bracketing a middle age of mechanical scientific metaphors, we are faced with an opportunity or a threat, depending on how attached a person is to familiar knowledge. In a universe composed of plasma, we must rethink everything. We must look into the "empty spaces" between what feels familiar: How much of geology, now explained mechanically, could be the result of plasma currents in the Earth? Volcanoes, earthquakes, magnetism, tectonic activity? A large body of anecdotes (read: ignored data) links electrical phenomena with geological disturbances. How much of meteorology is driven from space? The discovery of sprites and the correlation of climate with sunspot ...
889. The Planet Mars, Part 2 Mars Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... certain forces, were influenced originally by the earth at the time of contact? Mars, being small as compared wi th the earth, influenced to a lesser degree the rotation of the earth and the position of its poles. The surface of Mars is crisscrossed with a network of "canals." Their discoverer, Schiaparelli, assumed that geological forces were a factor in their formation; on the other hand, he was "very careful not to combat this supposition, which includes nothin g impossible," of the presence of intelligent beings on Mars who could have built these canals. Percival Lowell spent his life in a crusade to convince fellow scholars and other contemporaries that intelligent ...
890. The Nature of Venus' Heat [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Glass addresses the same question, asking, "[ W ]here is the oxygen? Pioneer Venus probes only detected 70 ppm [parts per million] oxygen in the lower atmosphere. Some of the oxygen to account for a vanished `ocean' of water would require that several kilometers of rock be oxidized. This would require an extremely geologically active planet." (19) Most scientists are skeptical that early Venus had, for its first billion years of existence, immense volcanic activity. On the Earth, it took an exceedingly long time before enough water was vented volcanically from the interior prior to ocean formation. The same is also expected for Venus. In this respect ...
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