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19 pages of results. 121. Venus -- A Youthful Planet [Journals] [Kronos]
... Youthful Planet" was published in the April, 1967 issue of the Yale Scientific Magazine . It is reprinted here with a marked timeliness. - LMG] The nebular hypothesis of the origin of the planetary family (Swedenborg, Kant, Laplace), also in its modern form (Weiszacker), complies with the uniformitarian principle of Hutton, Lyell, and Darwin. On the other hand, the tidal hypothesis in its original version (a tidal disruption of the sun by a passing star- Moulton, Chamberlain, Jeans, Jeffreys) and in its variant (the collision of the passing star with one member of a binary star system of which the sun is a surviving member ...
122. 'No Impact': René Gallant (1906-1985) [Books]
... establishing priority in science, priority of publication seems to be, for many scientists, what really drives science [8 ] . As Sir Howard Florey has written, "the scientist likes to be the first to make a discovery - the first to do something" [9 ] . Who having read Darwin's letter of 26 June 1858 to Lyell, after he had the news of Wallace's theory, can forget his modestly expressed fear that he might lose his "priority of many years' standing" [10] . I shall also consider Gallant's work in relation to the modern problem of the role of the amateur in the highly professional world of science, and the related problem ...
123. The Recency of the Surface [Books] [de Grazia books]
... fed more quickly than he does today. So the ocean bottom cannot be older than 1350 years, and ethology becomes the queen of clockmakers. Quantavolution should be embarrassed to joke so, if science were not on some occasions a theatre of the absurd. One can reflect upon the history of geology when, blessed by the nihil obstat of Lyell, geologists would simply draw upon time without end to do away with complexities and perplexities. When Poulett Scrope prepared his famous studies of the volcanoes of Auvergne (France), his theories might be liberated from temporal restraints, such that a recent commentator on his work, Rudwick, could refer to "unlimited drafts upon antiquity" as ...
124. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2005 (Sep 2005) Home | Issue Contents Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth Trevor Palmer Historical Perspective Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the gradualistic paradigm, championed in the previous century by Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, had seemed beyond challenge. As envisaged by Darwin, biological evolution proceeded in a slow and stately fashion, through the mechanism of natural selection. As he himself put it, It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and ...
125. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... catastrophist, and pointed out that the history of cosmic collision theory showed that accepted' science was very much influenced by the political environment of its day. Cuvier lived at the time of the French revolution but revolutionary ideas were seen as a political threat by the British, whose constitution was based on ideas of gradualism, hence the acceptance of Lyell and then Darwin. With the collapse of communism, cosmic collision ideas have become more acceptable, being politically neutral, but the writer thinks gradualism is still a strong influence, adherence to which seems to be the equivalent of the McCarthy loyalty oath for scientists. ' ASTRONOMY Pulsating problems New Scientist 7.2 .98, Scientific American ...
126. Catastrophism and Anthropology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... global upheavals all institutions and religious ceremonies were derived. Yet, with the emergence of 19th century evolutionary gradualism, all fields of science banned catastrophe theories completely from universities, research and scientific journals. Over and over again, historians and anthropologists rejected any historical reading of the ancient catastrophe legends and rituals by reference to the works of Darwin and Lyell [1 ]. When Frazer published his comprehensive study on the worldwide story of the great flood, he stressed the paradigmatic importance of Darwin's theory of evolution, consequently rejecting every possibility that the tradition originated from historical events [2 ]. According to Frazer's biographer, the implicit purpose of this rejection was to undermine the Bible and religion ...
127. Thoth Vol III, No. 9: June 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... THE INTRODUCTION TO _Seeing Red, Quasars, Cosmologies and Academic Science_ . . . . . . . .by Halton Arp- LOOKING UP by Mel Acheson At NEW SCENARIOS ON EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, the recent conference held in Italy, a paper by Franco Ricci-Lucchi parsed the decline in prestige of geology since the time of Lyell. "Geology is considered by many people as a minor or ancillary science, or even a non-science, under the influence of thinkers such as Karl Popper (what is not amenable to experiment is not falsifiable; therefore it is not science .. .) and of a restricted notion of science .. . according to which the ...
128. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... single over-riding impulse. This will place the entire Velikovsky story in a new light. To deduce Velikovsky's stance vis-a-vis Judaism, we begin with a number of conditions that exerted strong pressures upon him. The first and most obvious is the scientific climate that existed in Europe during 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 ...
129. Quantalism And Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... for Velikovskians or for Clubeans. SALTATIONISM The second is saltationism, a term and concept originated by Thomas Henry Huxley. Today, Huxley is remembered by many readers primarily as "Darwin's bulldog," the articulate spokesman for evolutionists in their debates with anti-evolutionary writers and lecturers. Yet Huxley differed from Charles Darwin and from Darwin's geological mentor, Charles Lyell, both of whom were uniformitarians (uniformists, for short). The aspect of uniformism that Huxley did not accept was gradualism, the doctrine that crucial events in the history of Earth and its inhabitants, such as the appearance of new species, occurred so slowly as to be unobservable while in process. Instead, he postulated saltations-collective ...
... theories about the solar system and points to many questions that remain unanswered: about the origins of the planets, of comets, of life, of the ubiquitous legend of the Flood; about the causes of mountain building .111(1 of the Ice Ages, for example. The conflict is stressed between modern theories of gradual evolution (Lyell, Danwit) and the earlier one of catastrophic change (Cuvier). Velikovsky shows that the concept of ages brought to an end by violent natural changes can be found in the traditions of peoples the world over, in Armenia, China, Etruria, Greece, Iceland, India, Mexico, Persia, Polynesia, and Tibet, ...
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