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33 pages of results. 241. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... were ice-laden? So what exactly changed, creating the opposite situation- a frozen North Pole and tundra that is partly frozen only in winter? While on the subject, is there a problem with the accepted dating of the oscillating glacial periods (there were quite a few in the last few million years)? And, as for the mammoths, one should bear in mind that the adaptations of megafauna of the Upper Pleistocene must have taken quite a while. So what causes and ends these long ice ages according to the Saturn model? Until how late in history did the planets loom large in the sky? Until when did they produce memorable phenomena? Cardona also mentions " ...
242. The Birth and Odyssey of Halley's Comet: From 2484 B.C. to the Present Time [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... because of water molecules' polarity, these icy particles were directed into Earth's atmosphere at the magnetic poles.[11] These were "cold," perhaps -200 to -300 F., and lethal, forming 200 to 400 mph winds, laying waste to trees and animals alike in our Siberian and Northern Canadian polar regions. The woolly mammoths' pleasant environment was shattered with their first breath of the cold gases; they died, frozen (from the inside) in their tracks, with food still half swallowed in their mouths! The Earth's glacial age was upon our planet. Other changes resulted, such as a major alteration of atmospheric turbulence, a decrease in atmospheric carbon ...
243. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... But the fact remains that Velikovsky has presented a case to be answered." With this concluding sentence Wilson just rescues objectivity from the brink of oblivion. He then proceeds to elaborate on several pieces of evidence from Earth in Upheaval which clearly impressed him as evidence for geological catastrophe: the dying of the dinosaurs, the riddle of the frozen mammoths. Velikovsky is also given the credit for "genuine scientific inspiration" regarding evolution by sudden huge leaps. Ages in Chaos is not so generously treated however, for "most ordinary readers must have found this work confusing and boring". This is a sign of the reviewer's own prejudice-and more is to come. The third piece is ...
244. Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , M. W. de Laubenfels, had previously suggested that the dinosaur extinction might have been caused by a giant meteorite impact [25]. The engineer, Otto Muck, thought that a collision between the Earth and an asteroid might have led to the destruction of the legendary Atlantis, as well as to the extinction of the Siberian mammoths [12]. More recently, Sir Fred Hoyle has argued that asteroid impacts trigger the beginning and end of ice ages [26]. [* See "Showers of Glass", p. 8 in this issue.] Nevertheless, the prevailing tendency of evolutionary biologists has been to follow Darwin's belief that "Nature does not ...
245. Alternatives in Science: The Secular Creationism of Heribert Nilsson [Journals] [Kronos]
... extraordinary thickness of organic sedimentary strata (e .g . chalk, coal, diatomaceous earth), the vast quantities of fossils jumbled together in a single locale, the occurrence side by side of organisms from quite different climate zones and from fresh and salt water, the undecayed state of many fossil plants (to say nothing of fresh frozen mammoths) - these are the standard reasons for concluding that sedimentation is by and large not "autochthonous" (made up of local products) but "allochthonous" (made up of products washed together from widely different places). Uniformitarian geologists cannot, of course, accept very much allochthony without conceding the game to the catastrophists. But ...
246. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... is technically a fast precession. A moment's reflection will rid us of any notion that the action would be harmless. The atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere would be agitated and produce effects that by any measures would have to be called quantavolutionary. For instance, it appears most likely that the widespread sudden destruction throughout the northern regions of the mammoths and other large mammals occurred in conjunction with a tilt of the Earth's axis in the presence of the exoterrestrial entity causing the tilt. We can say this because a sudden deep vacuum freeze, asphyxiation, thrusting of masses of gravel and bones, and permanent cold ever thereafter, such that the animals are sometimes found still fleshed-out and diagnosed ...
247. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... hairless and has a subcutaneous fat layer. Birth is attended by a midwife' elephant, just as with the whale and dolphin. In the latter instance the attendant is present to assist the young to the surface for its first breath. (That the elephant's fat layer might be an aquatic adaptation is a strong argument against that of the mammoth being an insulation against Arctic cold.) Persuasive as all these and many more facts are, Morgan does not leave us with just such circumstantial arguments. She also deals with the geological background as discussed by Leon P.La Lumiere Jr. of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, U.S .A . At the ...
248. Whence Homo? [Journals] [Aeon]
... (33) In France there is alleged evidence of dwellings, thought to have been constructed of rocks and branches. (34) Sites have been excavated which are believed to have been Homo erectus hunting camps. (35) They contain bones of now-living species of animals, varying in size from rodents to elephants, as well as extinct mammoths. Stone tools are often found in association with the bones. Hunting and killing animals as large as elephants would require coordinated group efforts. Planning would be necessary, at least to the extent of preparing weapons. And, in the activity of cooperative hunting, many anthropologists perceive certain "selection pressures," forcing the evolution of a ...
249. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - II [Journals] [Kronos]
... then scavengers. If, as seems reasonable, we may equate the pre-lapsarian world of mythology with the pre-Holocene world of paleontology, it can be assumed that the faunal diversity of aureal times was considerably greater than that of our epoch. At any rate, much of the Pleistocene megafauna is now missing, including such imposing creatures as the Asian mammoth, the North American mastodon, the South American giant sloth, and the African "elephant bird". Nearly all aureal traditions portray a "condominium of beings", in which men and beasts lived together amicably, on a footing of intimacy and equality. Communication across species boundaries is depicted as having been easy, common, and ...
250. "Worlds in Collision": Reviews and Reviewers [Journals] [Aeon]
... our collisionist" "has studied in just about all the places there are on this globe and his book is as liberally sprinkled with footnotes as salt on cinema house popcorn;" in a more serious vein, F. L. thought that the book offered one of the most original solutions he had seen for the mystery of the fresh mammoth carcasses that were occasionally unearthed. Joseph Landau (Louisville Courier-Journal, April 2) discussed the book in relation to a fundamentalist perspective, admitting that a superficial reading would provide "wonderful ammunition to those who...have battled modern interpretation of the Bible." But in actuality, the book treated the scriptures as "human history ...
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