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19 pages of results. 141. Hurricanes and Cyclones [Books] [de Grazia books]
... new strikes penetrate deep into the new strata. But perhaps the Earth's surface has spent 99.9 % of its time in a peaceful state with a quiet atmosphere. Such quiescence contradicts uniformitarianism as much as it does catastrophism; that is, I have used above the present "quiet" state to reconstruct the past, as Hutton and Lyell recommended. Yet even so, estimates resulting therefrom would be much more impressive than present conventional history gives one to understand. A final possibility is that the sedimentary rocks of the Earth are much too young to have experienced all that is supposed to have happened. That is, if the Earth were 100,000 years old, much ...
142. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... doubted that what they observed was the result of repeated cataclysms in which the entire globe partook. Actually, Charles Darwin, observing the destruction of fauna in South America, was convinced that nothing less than the shaking of the entire frame of the Earth could account for what he saw. But the introduction of the principle of uniformitarianism by Charles Lyell, a lawyer who never had field experience, and the acceptance of it on faith by Charles Darwin, are a psychological phenomenon that I observed again and again. Exactly those who, like Darwin, witnessed the omnipresent shambles of an overwhelming fury of devastation on a continental scale, became the staunchest defenders of the principle of uniformitarianism, ...
143. Reconsidering Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... cause large-scale destruction and, in his view, may have caused a number of dark ages'. This stimulating opening lecture, with the frequent use of slides to illustrate his points, gave us an overall view of the bombardment to which the Earth has continuously been subjected. Clube pointed out that the generally accepted uniformitarian view since Darwin and Lyell prevails largely because, when Biela's Comet broke up in 1845, there was hardly any noticeable effect on the Earth. Prior to that date, and since Velikovsky, the catastrophic nature of the approach of comets was well known. Their danger has been noted from the time of the Sumerians down to that of Newton and Halley. Evidence ...
144. Quantalism: The Big Picture [Journals] [Aeon]
... as a planetary caenocatastrophist. Recognizing, then, that catastrophism has many varieties, I am nonetheless dissatisfied with the term catastrophism as a blanket antonym to uniformitarianism (or uniformism, for short). For uniformism itself has at least two major conceptual components: gradualism and actualism. Gradualism is probably best represented by Charles Darwin's geological mentor, Charles Lyell. Actualism is perhaps best represented by Lyell's older contemporary, the German geologist Leopold von Buch. [8 ] Catastrophism, as I understand the term, should not be placed in opposition to uniformism generally, but only to one of its two components- viz., actualism, which is the theory that the forces which shaped our ...
145. Velikovsky And Cultural Amnesia [Journals] [Pensee]
... of reforming Parliament would be well served by theoretical justifications as lofty as those invoked by the Tories. Grinnell traced the earlier effort of Stroke to ascribe catastrophic events to laws of volcanic uplift established by God at the beginning of time, with no subsequent intervention necessary; but this was too radical for the L.G .S . When Lyell, a young Whig lawyer, then proposed the subtler argument that diluvial theories were mythological and impeded science, the L.G .S . elected him president and Stroke congratulated him. And when Agassiz in 1839 presented his theory of the ice ages with catastrophic explanations, it was too late; the data for catastrophism were immediately taken ...
146. Comments: on the First Issue [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... wrong in saying that Velikovsky's theories provide us with another kind of reductionism. Your claim that he tries to explain everything with a unified theory that leaves only with the spiritual or the divine to contemplate is very much an exaggeration. Without looking any further than the pages of your journal, one can find in the circular distributed at the Charles Lyell Centenary Conference several areas-of discussion which Velikovsky's theories do not even attempt to solve - I refer to the question of UFO's, alien contacts with humanity in ancient times, telepathy, telekinesis, and the claims of water dowsers and ore diviners. One could think of numerous other problems which his work avoids. So, unless you class such ...
147. Sagan's tenth problem: The circularization of the orbit of Venus (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... the mind-set of the astronomers. "I finally became aware that some of my fellow scientists are possessed by a mentality not much different from that of a fundamentalist in religion. A theory [or recorded measurement] cannot be valid [or accurate], I seemed to be hearing, if it is contrary to the gospel according to Charles Lyell [or Isaac Newton]." 39 Gravity and craters Before leaving this topic, let us return to Sagan's views respecting the ages of craters on Mercury, Venus, the Moon and Mars. Sagan has stated that Mercury, Mars and the Moon bear eloquent testimony to the fact that there have been abundant collisions during the history of ...
148. The Organization of the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... 3 1755 Kant's General History of the Heavens Generation 2 1734 Swedenborg's Prodromus Philosophiae Generation 1 1712 The Halley-Swedenborg Breakfasts Immanuel Kant is usually given credit for the nebular hypothesis from his work published in 1755. He popularized the idea. From Kant's wellspring, cosmological water was drawn by Laplace, Buffon, Russell and others in astronomy, by Hutton and Lyell in geology and by Darwin in biology. But the credit for the origin of this hypothesis has been incorrectly attributed to Kant, who adapted it from Swedenborg, 20-some years after Swedenborg first published it in Latin, entitled Prodromus Philosophiae Ratiocinantis de Infinito et Cause Creationis, a rather lengthy title by 20th century standards. Swedenborg, like so ...
149. Viva Lamarck: Renewed Discussion on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics [Journals] [Aeon]
... zoologique, for example, was first translated into English in 1914.(26) Cuvierian propaganda and the language barrier aside, it is nevertheless a fact that in his published writings and letters Darwin typically referred to Lamarck and his theory in a derogatory manner, denying any Lamarckian influence upon his work.(27) In a letter to Lyell, for example, Darwin refers to Lamarck's Philosophie zoologique as "a wretched book, and one from which (I well remember my surprise) I gained nothing."(28) Darwin repeated this claim in another letter: "I got not a fact or idea from it."(29) Such statements, however, ...
150. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... that "Velikovsky does not in the least tally with Mr. Gardner's description of the typical crank or pseudo-scientist". As to why Velikovsky "should arouse such hostility," Macbeth believes it is because "Velikovsky is a leading advocate of catastrophism. which is perhaps the most dangerous unorthodoxy of all since it strikes at the foundation on which Lyell, Darwin, and others have relied". 157. For the record, Gardner's mistakes will be corrected. The flood of Noah and the origin of Venus were not coincident and both occurred before 1500 B.C . The "collisions" were not grazing contacts, but close encounters. The crossing in Exodus occurred not at the ...
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