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... them likewise, which is rather sad because we were all trying to do the same thing. Also in 1975 there was apparently the centenary of Lyell's discovery of uniformity. A celebration was held in London and a Dutch geologist called Johann Kloosterman went there with a whole batch of leaflets knocking the bottom out of geology theory, showing that what Lyell had intended didn't square with the evidence he had collected. Kloosterman eventually produced a journal called Catastrophist Geology which regrettably only appeared for 4 issues. Another loss was Pensee, which folded in 1975. This was sad from any point of view because it was a very well produced magazine and was the benchmark for all that we published. ...
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152. Precursors [Journals] [Kronos]
... remained from its first origin, in his opinion, excited the whole antediluvian population to sin, for which they were all drowned in the deluge, excepting the fish, whose passions were apparently less violent." He was thus supporting the attitude of Voltaire against the ideas of Whiston. As it is known, Lamarck before Cuvier, and Lyell and Darwin after him, "proved" that there were no cataclysms, and thus Cuvier was put on dusty shelves. Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901), a member of the American Congress in the days of Lincoln (1863-1869), ran in 1900 as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the "middle-of-the-road-populists" ticket. In between his ...
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153. Still Facing Many Problems [Journals] [Kronos]
... elucidation of the inaccuracies propounded in defense of quantavolution under the guise of analyzing objectively the Greenland ice cores. Some may object that the interpretation of the Greenland ice core stratigraphy is contaminated by uniformitarian principles. Such would be the case if logic and credulity were strained by interpreting an obviously chaotic-looking regime as being the result of uniformitarian processes, as Lyell did in the nineteenth century [see George Grinnell, KRONOS I:4 ( 1976), pp. 68-76] . However, it is quite another matter, in the absence of physical evidence, to strain logic and credulity by interpreting an obviously quiescent-looking regime such as the Greenland ice cores - as having experienced recent catastrophes, yet ...
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154. The Continuing Evolution of Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... naturalist Baron Georges Cuvier proposed what came to be known as the Catastrophe theory, or Catastrophism. According to the theory, the abrupt faunal changes geologists saw in rock strata were the result of periodic devastations that wiped out all or most extant species, each successive period being repopulated with new kinds of animals and plants, by God's hand. Lyell rejected so nonscientific a hypothesis (as did James Hutton before him) and replaced it with the notion that geological processes proceeded gradually." Clearly the myth about the dichotomy between unscientific catastrophism and scientific gradualism in the nineteenth century still persists in some quarters. Trevor Palmer, 1994 \cdrom\pubs\journals\review\v1994\ ...
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... was noted by Gardner [i 13:32- 35], Moore [256:58], and Stecchini [378]. The idea that earth's history has been a catastrophic one was generally accepted until the nineteenth century, when it was replaced by the uniformitarian, or gradualist, ideas to which Velikovsky frequently refers as the theories of Lyell and Darwin. Comets have often been suggested as causes of terrestrial cataclysms, and the idea was quite common even in the late nineteenth century [323]. Thus Alexander von Humboldt, looking back, felt that "geology before M. W[erner's] time . . . was a succession of daydreams on comets which caused deluges ...
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156. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... credence. But today "collisions and catastrophism" --the same critic speaking-"are part and parcel of modern astronomy." The same is true of the evolutionary sciences of biology and paleontology, which emerged historically in the nineteenth century by vanquishing their catastrophist adversaries; they still bear the scars of that debate. The uniformitarian or gradualist doctrine as Lyell established it in geology (for subsequent adoption by Darwin) held that no force could be invoked as an effective cause that could not- like erosion, sedimentation, and volcanic activity- be seen at work today. But this was a circular and self-confirming argument; if a unique event had in fact occurred, the rule would prevent it from ...
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157. Confessions Of A Philosophical Velikovskian [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... be eliminated if a particular alternative chronology were adopted. But this is the case. Therefore, there is some reason to think that the conventional chronology is wrong, and the alternative one correct. As to Earth in Upheaval: If the uniformatarian assumptions about the history of the earth and the succession of geological ages which Darwin took over from Lyell, and have been almost universally accepted by the learned world until the last fifteen years or so, were true, you would not expect the geological record to be littered with signs of wholesale destruction of life on a vast scale. But the record is so littered. Therefore, there is reason to believe that these assumptions are false ...
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... Peterville, 1812) 16. N.D . Newell: Crises in the history of life. Scientific American 208 (2 ) (1963) pp 76-92. Also published in L.F . Laporte (ed.): Evolution and the Fossil Record (San Francisco: Freeman, 1982) pp 178-192. 17. C. Lyell: Principles of Geology (London: John Murray, 1830). 18. C. Darwin: On the origin of Species (London: John Murray, 1859) 19. C.E . Folsome: The Origin of Life (San Francisco: Freeman, 1979) Reviewed in SISR V:2 . 20. S. ...
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... an arid roster of cultural events which we are constantly tempted to animate by reintroducing the values we have banned, or else by back-handedly introducing values from our own culture." (22) In reading the literature surrounding the Velikovsky affair, I find little indication that we are sensitive to the social realities of our time any more than Charles Lyell when setting forth the doctrine of uniformity. By deliberate suppression of morality in the act of creation on the part of scientists, we have dismissed as irrelevant the issue of moral accountability so that space explorations become a cover for military needs. Yet, it is an astronomer, not always appreciated by the proponents of Velikovsky, Fred Hoyle ...
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160. Reviewing Velikovsky'S Venus And Mars Theories [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... However, Moore and Hunt's figure of 3 billion years ago, plus or minus, is not derived from evidence; the evidence favors recentness. The rivers beds have not been buried in dust. Moore and Hunt are merely repeating the traditional propaganda embedded in their gradualist dogma. Their paradigm was inherited from previous teachers back to the time of Lyell, and that back to Laplace and Kant. Gradualism (uniformitarianism) was Lyell's dogma for the geological sciences. Poorly laid out, nevertheless it achieved a status equal to fact through rave reviews and other forms of thought control. This same phenomenon also is true, unfortunately, in the astronomical sciences. The protesters to Lyell's uniformitarianism have ...
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