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... years. It doesn't make sense to them that a planet so like the Earth in size and distance from the Sun should have 10,000 to 100,000 times less water. After all, the pair have comparable amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, so the water was probably there at the outset, but has somehow disappeared over geologic time." Thus, even when we accept the established views of geophysicists, we face a contradiction. Based on the established view, Venus should have enormous amounts of water vapor in its atmosphere, but this is not the case. Why? The evidence clearly implies that whatever water Venus did possess was burned off in its early ...
942. Viva Lamarck: Renewed Discussion on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics [Journals] [Aeon]
... 32) Darwin's personal notebooks compiled during the period in which he came to accept the reality of evolution (1837-1840), some twenty years before the publication of Origin of Species, likewise attest to the decisive influence of Lamarck. There Darwin referred to Lamarck and his theory in the most glowing of terms: "Lamarck was the Hutton of Geology, he had few clear facts, but so bold and many such profound judgment that he foreseeing consequence was endowed with what may be called the prophetic spirit in science. The highest endowment of lofty genius."(33) Prominent also in these notebooks is the belief that habit determines structure, one of the most distinctive features of ...
943. Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... of Beirut Lebanon Valid Scientific Discussion To The Editor: I've always felt that Velikovsky has been getting unfair treatment, in that many published conclusions by reputable (! ) astronomers are founded on equally tenuous technical grounds. Personally, I've never gone for the comet theory of past catastrophes, but I'm willing to admit that ancient histories are full of geological violence. Some years ago a fellow named Charles Hapgood wrote a series of books which suggest another possible cause for geological upheavals. Specifically, he suggests that ice accumulating at whichever pole is not oceanic will normally be a little off center, and will produce an increasing force (centrifugal) which will tend to make the earth's entire crust ...
944. The New York Velikovsky Centenary Conference [Journals] [SIS Review]
... academic fields. .. . The third part of the story is what has come to be known as the Velikovsky Affair' (to which Gordon Atwater's memoir adds a new chapter). .. . We begin with an exposition of catastrophism itself .. most of the scientific evidence of the last 40 years in astronomy, archaeology, geology and ancient history .. favours some sort of catastrophism. It is no longer forbidden .. [but] is now a legitimate option in scientific theory, while uniformitarianism is coming more and more to be seen as a myth. .. . Nature is punctuated, which means it alternates between stability and chaos. .. Nowhere ...
945. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... even the less chronologically-inclined among us sitting upright and not falling into snooze-mode as Bob had feared. Our advertised speaker was our Chairman, Trevor Palmer, who presented his professorial lecture, delivered to an audience of non-catastrophists at Nottingham University the year before. The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism charted the history of ideas of catastrophism from original acceptance of geological evidence supporting biblical stories, through a period of rejection after Lyell's uniformitarian geology and Darwin's huge evolutionary time scales reinforced each other towards a completely gradualistic outlook and, finally, to the recent resurgence of catastrophism via the respectability of impact theories. All theories could be seen as products of their times. After Lyell and Darwin gradualism became so ...
946. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology. Part One: Radiometric Chronometry [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . The relative number of atoms given here apply roughly to a tonne of uranium-bearing granitic rocks typical of Canadian deposits, which yield about 1.2 Kg of U3O8 per tonne of the granites mined. ** the calculated lead concentration assumes an age of 950 Myrs for the ore. This age is typical of ores found in the Grenville Geological Province of Canada and implies an initial uranium number of 3.0 x 1024 atoms per tonne of the ore. Uranium-Lead Chronometry To establish the date for a uranium containing rock you must know three things: a) the initial amount of uranium-238 present in the rock, b) the rate at which uranium-238 decays, c) the ...
947. The Nature and Scale of an Exodus Catastrophe Reassessed [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC in the way we would expect if Velikovsky was correct in dating one of the greatest catastrophes in [Earth's] history' to that time. This has become particularly apparent in the light of Mandelkehr's articles presenting evidence for an earthwide event around 2300 BC (Mandelkehr 1980/81; 1987; 1988). The archaeological, climatological and geological evidence amassed for that event simply cannot be matched for the mid-second millennium. With all this in mind, we turn to the biblical traditions. The Biblical Indications Before examining the biblical traditions I must say something briefly about my own attitude to them as historical sources. It is not at all fashionable at present to treat them as such ...
948. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... major plate boundaries. Further afield, in China, not on a major plate boundary, legends suggest an early destruction by flood rather than earthquake. And the eruption of the volcano on the island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean must certainly have played some part in the decline of Minoan civilisation. On balance, the archaeological and geological evidence that many prehistoric and proto-historic cultures were struck down by massive natural catastrophes, rather than the action of man, is impressive. Taking into account ancient man's obsession with the skies, Dr Baity has recently been considering the various theories which argue for catastrophes initiated by extraterrestrial agents, i.e comets, planets, asteroids, meteorites ...
949. On the Orientation of Ancient Temples and Other Anomalies [Journals] [Aeon]
... tectonics, there was no reasonable explanation for the numerous changes recorded by the archaeologists. So, as a working hypothesis, let us assume that the underlying plates rotated to some extent, first one way then, possibly, another. True, such changes have been postulated, but it is generally believed that these changes occurred over periods of geologic time, not mere centuries. In order to properly understand what happened, and when, we should start with the date that each temple was established. Unfortunately, although Penrose hoped to provide a date for each temple (and he included the dates in his tables), there is no reason to think that his dates are definitive ...
950. C&C Review 1997:2: Contents [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: C&C Review 1997:2 Texts Home | SIS Review Home Chronology & Catastrophism Review Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 1997:2 News 2 Articles Planet in Crisis 4 Bernard Delair presents geological evidence for major recent upheavals of the Earth. Worlds in Collision' after Heinsohn 13 William Mullen examines what happens to the evidence for Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision events if the revised chronology of Gunnar Heinsohn is adopted O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians 22 In O-Kee-Pa', the Mandans linked legends of past catastrophe with a cruel initiation rite for their young men. Benny Josef Peiser investigates the meaning of this strange ritual. Shishak, the ...
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