Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

441. Henry H. Bauer and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]

... date is in complete contradiction to the concept that the oil formed from vegetation is millions, or if formed from cometary materials- it should be billions of years old and again could never exhibit a youthful age. That is the crux of the matter related to the origin of oil. Oil millions or billions of years old should not give a radiocarbon date at all, and this does suggest it has a different origin and perhaps a recent origin! Now to be fair to Bauer, Velikovsky did make mistakes in this paper which we touched upon. This cannot be denied! The kinetic theory of gases explains the mixing of the gases in the atmosphere; winds further do explain the ...

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442. The Flood [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... . 88. Ibid, p. 226. 89. Medford Taylor, "The Simpson Outback," National Geograpgic (April, 1992): 66, 67, 74. 90. "Loess," The McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology 10 (New York, 1987), p. 164. 91. Samples sent for radiocarbon testing suggest a fish age of 1,000 years, but, as pointed out elsewhere, this dating method is not reliable, especially in water-logged material. 92. D. L. Dineley and P. A. Garrett, "Whale Remains in Glacier Ice," Nature 183 (1959): 272. 93. " ...

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443. Beneath Bauer [Books]

... test data which would support Velikovsky. "It is often said that scientists have an ethical obligation to publish all their data, not to select only what supports their hypotheses and to discard the rest." (136) Reference is being made here to the most notorious example of this practice in the Velikovsky Affair, when dates obtained from radiocarbon analysis of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamen, performed by the British Museum in London, dates which Bauer himself understands "were in conflict with conventional chronology . . . but would have given some support to Velikovsky's revised chronology," (137) were not published. This is the sort of thing that led to these complaints. ...

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444. ALL Honorable Men [Books]

... analysis whom William E. Stiebing, Jr. the historian calls, "one of the most accurate methods yet developed. A tree-ring sequence 7,000 years long has been developed from the long-lived bristlecone pine trees of the southwestern Unites States . . . . More recently a 6,000-year tree-ring sequence developed from Irish Oak Trees has been radiocarbon tested, and its calibration curve generally agrees with that established from the bristlecone sequence. Both sets of calibrated dates generally support conventional chronology . . . ." (219) However, the reader is reminded that archeological digs carried out in the Near East showed that the conventional chronology is at least 750 to 800 years shorter than conventional ...

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445. The Erratic Descent of Man [Books]

... . 204. R. Lewin: `What killed the giant mammals', Science 221 (1983), pp. 1036-1037; L. Krishtalka: `The Pleistocene ways of death', Nature 312 (1984), pp. 225-226. 205. P. S. Martin: `Catastrophic extinctions and late Pleistocene blitzkrieg - two radiocarbon tests', in M. H. Nitecki (ed.): Extinctions (University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 153-189; P. S. Martin: `Refuting late Pleistocene extinction models', in D. K. Elliott (ed.): Dynamics of Extinction (Wiley, New York, 1986 ...

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