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181 pages of results. 581. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ". Why? And who says there was no beginning? Mr Douglass certainly hasn't proved it. He substitutes a "more credible" alternative. Credible to whom, may I ask? God is supposed, then, to be like Reality, Truth, Life and Love, all of which are imaginary concepts totally non-existent apart from their physical objects and consciousness. The real purpose of this idea is to shunt God even further back "out of harm's way", so that, if he exists, he doesn't bother all the happy humanists in their frolicking. In my opinion, catastrophism neither proves nor disproves religion. No matter how far back you go in the chain ...
582. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in warming summer waters. Coal was a hydrophobic gelatinous material which floated initially, later accumulating minerals and sinking, to stifle the new growth of young seedlings. The entire Carboniferous Era is just the record of one monumental event in Earth's history, an event which has occurred over and over, each time restructuring the Earth's surface, not only physically but chemically, and requiring a simultaneous drastic change in all life forms to be able to adapt to a completely new environment. An animated discussion followed but was curtailed by shortage of time. It was obvious that even for those used to accepting the idea of Velikovsky's massive extra-terrestrial catastrophes, a period of consideration would be needed in order ...
583. On Ecological Niches in Evolution [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... profession - in other words, are niches environmental spaces that exist whether or not organisms live in them, or are they created by the range of activities (feeding, nesting, etc.) performed by each species in its unique way? If niches are addresses, then the problems of organic diversity might be reduced to a study of physical habitats and their change through space and time. If niches are professions, then diversity will be set in a large part by the kinds of organisms that settle in an area. We must then wonder whether a nearly infinite subdivision of niches might be possible and whether the notion of a limit to diversity makes any sense at all. ...
584. Chronological Implications of a Proper Identification of the Labyrinth [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... statements as extracted in the epitomes centuries later, even though relied upon by Egyptologists for the basic chronological framework, have been disregarded in numerous particulars. Accordingly, the use of Manetho and supposedly related statements by Strabo and Diodorus about Imandes or Mandes to bolster the identification of Hawarra as the Labyrinth site is speculation that must give way to the physical evidence. The physical similarities between the Labyrinth as described in the literary sources and the Step Pyramid complex require the Step Pyramid complex to be equated with the Labyrinth. So does the problem that the identification of Hawarra forces us to accept the unlikely conclusion that both Strabo and Herodotus neglected to discuss a site as impressive as the Step Pyramid ...
585. Pallas Athene, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... of Herodotus, II, 542; Pliny, Natural History, ii, 37. 13. The name Venus or Aphrodite belonged to the moon. 14. Augustine, The City of God, Bk. VII, Chap. 16. Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, I, 263, discusses the various hypotheses of the physical nature of Athene and, unable to agree with any, asks: "Is there any proof that Athene, as a goddess of the Hellenic religion, ever was a personification of some part of the physical world?" Cicero De natura deorum i. 41, referred to a treatise by the Stoic Diogenes Babylonius, De Minerva, ...
586. KA [Books]
... , was the reaction of the peoples of the world; in fact, sympathetic magic. The hope must have been that a celestial object which, from previous experience, might be a threat to survival, would go away, assume a safer orbit, etc.. Since it was not possible to repel such gods or monsters by ordinary physical means, sympathetic magic and prayers were the only possibilities. Here we have one explanation of sacrifice. This is not a modern interpretation. Plutarch, in his Isis and Osiris, 362 E, tells us that "the Egyptians sacrifice to Typhon with the intention of soothing his anger, yet at some festivals they insult red-headed men, ...
587. Meteoritic Impacts And Radioactivity [Books]
... . 37. Reaction formula: N147 (n10, H11) C146. 38. Disintegration formula,: C146+ N147 + B (or e0-1) 39. Nuclear Geology, p. 85. . 40. Crowe, Nature, vol. clxxxii, 1958, p. 471. 41. M. J. Aitken, Contemporary Physics, vol. ii, No. 5, 1962, p. 340. 42. W. Elsasser, E. P. Ney, and J. R. Winckler, Nature, vol. clxxviii, 1956, pp. 1226-7. 43. See note 40. 44. See note 43. After the publication of the ...
... natural history of the globe" [121]. That is the story which has been presented to generations of geology students. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle includes quotations from three popular geology textbooks from the 1970s, one of which claimed, "Modern geology was born in 1795 when James Hutton .. . formulated the principle that the same physical processes that are operating in the present also operated in the past" [122]. Another stated: `The first to break formally with religion-shrouded tradition was James Hutton' [123], whilst a third said that Hutton `made it his task to clear the geological Augean Stables of the encrusted catastrophist doctrine of over one thousand ...
589. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... seems ready to acknowledge. In fact, I would venture to suggest that it is too wide ever to be realistically filled. A number of other objections to the standard of the evidence in "Worlds in Collision" will be presented, as they arise, in the course of this book. I have deliberately avoided the issues of the physical possibility or impossibility of Velikovsky's scenario. For that side of the Velikovsky debate I would refer the reader to "Scientists Confront Velikovsky" (Editor Donald Goldsmith; Cornell University Press, 1977), In this took I am concerned only with the problems of whether Velikovsky's sources really say what he says they do, without regard to arguments ...
590. Thoth Vol I, No. 2: February 5, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... and cultural themes, as well as a developing understanding of the electric/plasma nature of the universe. The best source of information about what happened in ancient times is, of course, the witnesses themselves. But this testimony is only the beginning and must, in the final analysis, be reconciled with what science can tell us about physically plausibility, the geological record, and other data bearing on our reconstructions. This is essentially what has been happening in an ongoing debate between catastrophists and the scientific mainstream, and you can expect an acceleration of discussion in the coming months and years. There is reason to believe that, just a few thousand years ago, ancient cultures ...
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