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119 pages of results. 911. The Continuing Evolution of Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and Packard, but suggests by his choice of references that he was the first to describe the basic concept. Lewin, however, points out that the first written account came in Langton's 1986 paper, Studying artificial life with cellular automata', followed in 1988 by Packard's Adaptation towards the edge of chaos'. Kauffman's claimed 1985 reference (strangely missing from the list at the end of his book) was apparently to a series of unpublished discussions. Regardless of this, priority is only important if the studies with Boolean networks really do have relevance for biological evolution. In Complexity, Lewin asks Kauffman bluntly whether the whole scenario isn't little more than an analogy, a seductive image ...
912. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... delay to report it to Nebuchadnezzar, and urge him to attack Jerusalem. The scruples of the Babylonian king, who feared God, and all the reasons he advanced against a combat with Israel, they refuted, and finally they induced him to act as they wished. (49) At the capture of the city, while all the strange nations were seeking booty, the Ammonites and the Moabites threw themselves into the Temple to seize the scroll of the law, because it contained the clause against their entering into the "assembly of the Lord even to the tenth generation." (50) To disgrace the faith of Israel, they plucked the Cherubim from the Holy of ...
913. The Catastrophic Substructure of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... suspect. Is science the supreme disinterested search for truth, or a principal weapon in the fight against truth? In the play Macbeth, the two victorious Scottish generals Macbeth and Banquo are accosted by the Witches and given tempting predictions, some of which instantly come true. Macbeth appears to be succumbing, and so Banquo warns him But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray'sv In deepest consequence. Macbeth, I .3 . 122-126 . Perhaps it is the same, for example, with Newton and Darwin, whose descriptions of the cosmos and life respectively appear to ...
914. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... from heaven on the altar in the time of Moses, and had not been extinguished so long as the Temple stood. They turned in supplication to God to be instructed by Him. The celestial fire had been hidden by Jeremiah at the time of the destruction of the Holy City, and the law did not permit them to bring "strange fire" upon the altar of God. An old man suddenly remembered the spot in which Jeremiah had buried the holy fire, and he led the elders thither. They rolled away the stone covering the spot, and from under it appeared a spring flowing not with water, but with a sort of oil. Ezra ordered this fluid ...
915. Stars, Galaxies and Electro-Gravitic Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... . 24. Helfand, David T. et al.; "Pulsar Proper Motion," Astrophysics Journal, Vol. 213, (1977), p. L1. 25. Science News, Vol. 110, "A Slow Pulsar and Cosmology," (1976), p. 280. 26. "Scientists Baffled by Strange Double Star," Astronomy, Vol. 2 (Dec. 1974), p. 59. 27. "One Little, Two Little... Binary Pulsars," Science News, Vol. 121 (1982), p. 233. 28. Scientific American (Feb. 1987), p. 56. 29 ...
916. Scientific Evidence for A Major World Catastrophe About 11,500 Years Ago: A Preliminary Selection [Journals] [SIS Review]
... years ago. This is the conventional geological date marking the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) epoch. Extensive unconsolidated surface deposits, collectively styled drift', mantle many land areas globally, often oblivious to underlying topography. Its irregular internal character indicates a rapid and tumultuous mode of deposition. Bedrock surfaces subjacent to the drift' are strangely smashed, furrowed and fissured. Immense numbers of large and small boulders, demonstrably transported great distances as objects foreign to the localities now hosting them, often decorate drift' covered regions. These are accordingly called erratics'. Early theories usually attributed the accumulation of the drift' and the erratics' to the rain-induced waters of Noah's Deluge. ...
917. For the Record. . . [Journals] [Kronos]
... " p. 13, Velikovsky stated his earlier belief that ". . . in the catastrophe of the Deluge, which I ascribe to Saturn exploding as a nova, the cosmic rays must have been very abundant to cause massive mutations among all species of life. . ." [emphasis added].) On the other hand, strangely enough, only forty-five pages after Asimov's above remarks, he stated the following: "To shift the position of the axis [of the Earth] appreciably is more than the known gravitational effect of other bodies in the solar system can do. We might imagine some cataclysmic effect, the passing of some planetary body near the Earth, ...
918. Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... detail was of secondary importance. What really mattered was that Darwinism provided a lever for separating science from religion [20: p. 472]. As Mayr has written: during the first Darwinian revolution, Darwinism for almost everybody meant explaining the world by natural processes' [18: p. 107]. Which leaves us with the strange case of Lyell. In the words of Mayr: Even though a friend and mentor of Darwin and usually considered a Darwinian, he never accepted the most basic components of Darwin's research program. God, for him, was apparently always the ultimate causation; Lyell did not extend evolution to man, and he never accepted natural selection' ...
919. On Models and Scenarios [Journals] [Aeon]
... massive volumes of water have flowed on its surface in recent times. The cameras showed the larger satellite Tethys, displaying a massive crater (christened Odysseus), large enough to swallow the satellite Mimas. Around three quarters of the moon's circumference runs a giant trench or rift, testimony to a former titanic stress upon the entire sphere. Other strange markings appear to have been painted across vast portions of the surface, apparently from an external source- and none of these enigmatic features could be explained by Voyager scientists. Equally surprising was the satellite Dione, revealing leading and trailing hemispheres of two entirely different types, though both show indications of more than one episode of substantial resurfacing. ...
920. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... harps of Alexander the Great in the Asian steppes, or the now long-silent Colossi of Memnon in Egypt. Likewise, electromagnetic signals can be detected, rectified, amplified, and audibly broadcast by certain classes of minerals and crystals, such as galena (lead sulfide), causing them to crackle eerily, sing and whistle, or speak in strange tongues. Returning to the polar column itself, surrounding the central vortex would be a turbulent gaseous sheath, which may extend several column radii from the center of the core. Other than radiation pressure and photon activation, the solar wind and the magnetic filament flux emanating from the Sun would erode the sheath, sending eddies streaming outward from ...
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