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... and built a palace, where, in 670, a monastery and church were erected. Once an important market town Reculver retains only a remnant of the Roman camp, and this exists because in 1810, when the north side fell in, Trinity House protected the remainder by an "apron" from the sea, which, Sir Charles Lyell contended, advanced at the rate of two feet a year. The church of 670 retains its two west towers and gable, though, as late as 1781, a contemporary print shows the church complete with a porch and outer buildings on the seaward side. In Leland's day, the sixteenth century, the same church lay a quarter ...
112. A Conversation with Barry Fell [Journals] [Horus]
... give me time to think about this. There again its a question of my training - I was a student in the 19... (inaud.) .. . the student of a professor who had been a student of Huxley and dates back therefore - I have a sort of academic lineage leading back to the time of Lyell, the great British geologist. Our professors told us the whole story of the overthrow of catastrophism by uniformitarianism and of Lyell, the great hero who showed how the strata was slowly formed under the sea and slowly elevated. It wasn't all the result of one colossal flood in which everybody got killed. So because of that its been ...
113. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , Professor of Geology at the University of Birmingham. Hallam is not interested in defending outmoded gradualism. He agrees with Stephen Jay Gould [2 , 4] that catastrophists such as Cuvier were the true empiricists of the day, interpreting the stratigraphic record as it appeared, for instance in the abruptly changing succession of fossil faunas, and that Lyell introduced confusion into the argument' [102]. He further agrees that the actualistic principle of uniformitarianism, that the present is the key to the past', is accepted by catastrophists and substantive uniformitarians (gradualists) alike. However, he considers that serious doubts and difficulties persist about extraterrestrially-induced catastrophes, especially as a general explanation for ...
114. The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... a single tapestry. That there may be errors of commission and omission should not be allowed to detract from the insight of this brave effort. D.L . Cyr [portrait] ISAAC N. VAIL (1840-1912) ORIGINATOR OF THE ANNULAR-CANOPY PLANET THEORY [picture] JUPITER'S NEWLY DISCOVERED RING! NASA (JPL) IMAGERY When the immortal Lyell, basing his conclusions upon the irresistible evidence which he had drawn from a lifelong tour of active research, resolved to plant the banner of uniformitarian law at the head of the geologic host- he little thought perhaps that to be operative it must be applicable in the growth and development of all worlds. When he took the advanced position ...
115. Challenges to Evolutionary Gradualism [Books]
... also true that the catastrophists, having rejected the concept of evolution on grounds that were explicitly scientific, allowed for the possibility that new species had been created at the start of each new geological period. However, if that can be used as a reason for dismissing the catastrophists from consideration as serious scientists, the same should apply to Charles Lyell, the founder of uniformitarianism, who held essentially the same views on this particular issue. As regards the argument about whether the history of the Earth had proceeded in an episodic (saltational) or gradualistic fashion, a straightforward reading of the fossil record tended to support the catastrophist view, showing abrupt changes between geological periods. The uniformitarians ...
116. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... uniformitarianism with biblical fundamentalists. Not so Sagan and Druyan, who write: There were distinguished geologists who held that floods and other catastrophes might explain the Earth's landforms, but that the Noachic food wasn't enough. It would take many floods, many catastrophes. These scientific Catastrophists were comfortable with Lyell's long time scales. But for the biblical literalists Lyell posed an awkward problem. In turn, our present-day knowledge of events at the end of the Permian Period poses an awkward problem for those who support Lyell's view that the Earth has been shaped by the same gradual processes that we observe today, but operating not merely over a few weeks, or a few thousand years, but ages ...
117. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , and despite all the attempts during that time by philosophers, theologians, and scientists to discover an eternal orderliness in the skies, it is not given to us to believe that the heavens have settled down forever. In a strictly logical sense, we must however agree with the founder of uniformitarian thought, James Hutton, he who influenced Lyell and thus Charles Darwin. Writing in 1795, he declared: "In examining things present we have data from which to reason with regard to what has been; and from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen hereafter."[20] In their simple and elegant abstraction ...
118. Zetetic Scholar Nos. 3 & 4 April 1979 [Articles]
... those who believe that some kind of violent forces on a large scale were the principal agents in shaping the Earth. Though presently thought to be discredited, catastrophism has considerable foundation in the development of scientific thought. Indeed, this interpretation of the Earth's record was considered respectable within geology until about a century ago, when the views of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin became victorious over it in the context of an intellectual war waged with religious and political overtones.18 The earlier geologists of catastrophist views were unscientific when they mixed together geologic evidence and Biblical testimony without recognizing, as Velikovsky does in the construction of his argument, the sharply different nature of the two types of proof. ...
119. The Flood [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... geological upthrusting generally destroys fossil beds.(84) Oyster shell beds like those found all across the southern part of the United States are also found in South America. These unfossilised shells share the same ground level as the fossilised whales. According to Charles H. Hapgood: Not long after the appearance of Cuvier's great work, Professor Charles Lyell was shown, in the Museum of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, a block of limestone from Santas, in Brazil, obtained by Captain Elliott of the [United States] Navy at about 1827. The block contained a human skull, teeth and other bones, together with fragments of shells, some of which still retained traces ...
120. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... over-riding nexus. If true, this will place the Velikovsky story in a significant new light. To deduce Velikovsky's stance vis-a-vis Judaism, we begin with a number of conditions that exerted strong pressure upon him. The first and most obvious is the scientific climate in Europe in the last half of the nineteenth century. In a word, if Lyell and Darwin were correct about the history of geology and biology, the Bible was false. If speculation about the size and age of the universe, the distances of stars and the structure of heavenly systems was correct, the Bible was false. To those who believed that science and mathematics would provide a mechanistic deterministic concrete description of all ...
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