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72 pages of results. 501. Marx, Engels, and Darwin [Books] [de Grazia books]
... that, with an approximately equal logic, rationality and (at least at that time) "evidence", either the Uniformitarian or the Catastrophist paradigm could be made to fit the Marxist paradigm. There are clear indications in their work of this: for example, Engels believed that mankind evolved first on the lost continent of Lemuria in the Indian Ocean, which sank catastrophically. Elsewhere he adopts the theory that intense atmospheric change (heat, etc.) can bring about conditions for new species of life and life itself. He rejects Lamarck's "vital aim" of evolution but often shows Lamarckian as well as Darwinian beliefs, even including the racial acquisition and inheritance of mathematical aptitude ...
502. Some Implications of Saunders' Lunar Hypothesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... evidence. Moreover, the priests are said to have talked of four reversals. If one reversal is highly improbable, four must seem virtually impossible. However, suppose the reversals were not four discrete events but were what was seen during a sustained catastrophe that caused Earth to roll through c. 720 degrees. An oral legend of the Hopi Indians says that when the twins' left their posts at the north and south ends of the world's axis, the Earth spun round crazily, then rolled over twice' [8 ]. That could explain how the priests knew of four reversals. If they knew from old records of four discrete events, they might well have shown Herodotus ...
503. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the 7th millennium BC. Similar representations have also come to light at Harappa (one of the main centres of the Indus civilisation) in the post-Harappa cemetery at that site, and in Spain and North Africa - the latter belonging to the descendants of the pastoral cultures of the 6th and 5th millennia BC when the Sahara was still green. Indian traditions and French folklore, among other things, indicate that the fire-bull rituals took place at certain periods of the year, namely the summer or winter solstices. This strongly suggests an astral significance for the fire-bull symbol, and possibly a connection with the megalithic monuments of prehistoric Europe. (Contrary to the anti-diffusionist views of Colin Renfrew, ...
504. What's in a Name? -- Venus "The Newcomer" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... forestall accusations of blinkered specialism and to "legitimise" the etymological arguments Principles of Linguistics Etymology is one of the oldest-established branches of linguistic science, and has developed alongside the techniques of comparative linguistics which gave rise to the concept of an "Indo-European family" of languages (including Celtic, Germanic, Latin, Greek, Slavonic, Persian and Indian languages) and the rather more nebulous concept of a "Proto-Indo-European" (IE) mother tongue. To an outsider, the Indo-European hypothesis and the principles of etymology may appear to be characteristic examples of intra-disciplinary dogma, and it should be emphasised that there is only one reason for the continuing supremacy of these assumptions: that they provide ...
505. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... . For me, the best explanation for these anomalous Hominid deviations from the Hominoid norm is the thesis advanced since 1960 by Alister Hardy, Carl Sauer and Elaine Morgan: During the Pliocene Epoch, which preceded the Pleistocene Ice Age and followed the Miocene radiation of Old World apes, our ancestors led a semiaquatic existence along the shores of the Indian Ocean. Wading would explain our erect stance; swimming, our hairless but padded skin; and diving, our bradycardia and breath control. The bust would have given aquatic infants something to cling to while suckling, in place of lost fur. Longer genitals would have kept silt and water out of the cervical and uterine area. Cushiony ...
506. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the same time was exposed by Evans. Evidence of a Chinese catastrophe with a hiatus between the Hia and the Chang dynasties was adduced by Schaeffer and Velikovsky. Previously, the Indus River civilization was shown to have collapsed in ruins then, too, and the extent of the fall has been steadily expanded north, east and south on the Indian subcontinent in the past half century of excavation[39]. The Euphrates River systems of channels moved west at this time and hundreds of settlements were abandoned in a long dark age[40]. It was then, too, that "the ancient cities of Southern Turkmenian civilization perished at about the same time as the proto-indian, ...
507. Homo Schizo Meets God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... The first's height is supposed to be an adaptation to heat, more surface per pound; the latter's chunkiness is supposed to conserve heat. But whence the Swede? Whence the many fleshy Africa Negroes? The Ibos, Pygmies, etc. Doesn't moisture and dryness of the air matter, etc.? I have seen pictures of chunky short Indians of the Amazon and Orinoco tropical jungles. The theory of evolution is full of hopeful guesses. I am working with a sample survey of attitudes and experiences of the U.S . population right now. I am, as always, acutely impressed by how the first relating of variables can mean nothing and always means nothing unless one ...
508. Canyons and Channels [Books] [de Grazia books]
... is therefore the survival of a terrible impression burned in upon the very substance of human memory." Some rivers possess drowned deltas of enormous proportions. The collision of India with Asia produced, besides the Himalayas, two equally large-scale, if less visible, phenomena in the deltaic fans of the Indus and Ganges River. These stretch into the Indian Ocean, one to the west, the other to the east of the subcontinent, covering with detritus ocean basin areas together as large as India itself. Like the raging torrents of yesterday in North America, these great transporting systems are today inactive. Although the rivers still carry two of the largest flows among all of the world's rivers ...
509. Some Additional Evidence from the Period from the Exodus to the End of the Eighteenth Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a point brought up by a few of my readers, the following needs to be said: The opening passage in the History of HERODOTUS [15] tells that the Phoenicians came to their country on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean from their original home on the shores of the Eritrean Sea, by which the Red Sea and also the Indian Ocean are known to have been named by the Greeks. This would explain such early reference. But in another Egyptian text Punt is referred to as being to the north of Egypt [16]. Besides, we should be mindful of the fact elucidated in Worlds in Collision that in historical times - and more than once - the ...
510. Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in Edinburgh, which goes into all this in considerable detail and much more clearly and authoritatively than I can do. I expect everybody knows the basic principles of tree-ring dating (which are explained in Panel C): it's an old idea, first applied many years ago in the United States, in Arizona particularly, to date the Pueblo Indian villages, since there was no other way of dating them. It simply involves matching the patterns of annual growth rings in living trees with the patterns of rings in dead trees, noting the similarities and overlaps, and thus building up a sequence of yearly growths of wood as far back as one can go. Until about ten years ...
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