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71 pages of results. 241. Erratics [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the earth, as well as on isolated islands in the Atlantic and Pacific and in Antarctica, lie rocks of foreign origin, brought from afar by some great force. Broken off from their parent mountain ridges and coastal cliffs, they were carried down dale and up hill and over land and sea."136 Edwin Tenney Brewster presents the uniformitarian view that the "Pre-uniformitarian solution . . . [to explain the erratics was] easy . . . there is always the Deluge. One has only to suppose vast and violent waves, traveling twenty times as fast as waves have been known to travel, twenty times as high as waves have ever been known to be, and ...
... , he was not timid in approaching even the highest authorities in search of information that would undermine their very systems of knowledge. But, while yet in his twenties he still lacked any clear vision of his own unique prophetic nature, which would not lie in the realm of narrowly Jewish concerns but would rather embrace a universalist counterrevolution against modern uniformitarianism. BERLIN German marks, which "normally" were exchanged for American dollars at the rate of 4.2 :1 , declined to 75:1 in the summer of 1921, to 400:1 in the following summer, to 7,000:1 at the new year, to 160,000:1 in July ...
243. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... one might ask, would mark "intrinsic trends to higher states", if increased brain size does not? Two sections will be of especial interest to readers of this Review. "Uniformity and Catastrophe" (No. 18) attempts to clear up some misunderstandings about 19th-century geology, particularly the idea that before LYELL shone the light of uniformitarianism into that science, it was dominated by the catastrophists who were "theological apologists who sought to compress the geologic record into the strictures of biblical chronology". Gould reminds us of the scientific catastrophists; precursors of Velikovsky, such as CUVIER, AGASSIZ, SEDGWICK and MURCHISON, none of whom resembled the caricatured fundamentalist "straw man" ...
244. The Birth of Planets [Journals] [SIS Review]
... accepted that the evidence of the fossil beds and the sedimentary layers spelt catastrophe; they accepted the teachings of the Bible, that there had been a Flood, or a series of floods, on the Noachian scale. But they could not explain how such floods on such a massive scale could occur. As a result of this failure, uniformitarianism came to dominate scientific thinking, though there has always been a small core of men who could not accept that such ideas were compatible with the data. Indeed, if anything the data acquired during the last two hundred years has indicated more and more strongly that such ideas are untenable. Despite this such ideas have held, but the ...
245. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... ignoring the records of observations made by our predecessors. Items such as the ancient 360 day year, the "coincidence" of Martian and Earth identical spin rates and axis tilts, the existence of ancient drawings of live dinosaurs, etc., are all ignored and treated as if they were imagined by their recorders. Science, in adopting uniformitarianism, seems to have a faith construct not unlike the religious community in this regard. When recorded data cannot be valid as compared to the reference of currently popular theory, Science simply consigns the record to "mythology" and defines that body of literature as the product of human imagination, without basis in observational fact. Mr. Cardona ...
246. Religious Elements in Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... largely a set of Newtonian laws that are fading fast and may soon be abrogated, and which serve to fire projectiles from the Earth in the direction of objects in space, such that, by deft ad hoc maneuvering, arrive on target. Otherwise, they boast La Place's mathematical explanations, which La Place himself declared to be dependent upon uniformitarian premises. Then there occur various ways of measuring brilliance, heat, distance, chemistry, speed, and chronology of heavenly bodies, which are hopeful speculations, thanklessly spared from all but an iota of factual proof, leaning upon one another for support but also begging each other's question. So great, however is faith in the one ...
247. Ever Since Darwin: A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... one might ask, would mark "intrinsic trends to higher states", if increased brain size does not? Two sections will be of especial interest to readers of this journal. "Uniformity and Catastrophe" (No. 18) attempts to clear up some misunderstandings about 19th-century geology, particularly the idea that before Lyell shone the light of uniformitarianism into that science, it was dominated by the catastrophists who were "theological apologists who sought to compress the geologic record into the strictures of biblical chronology". Gould reminds us of the scientific catastrophists, precursors of Velikovsky, such as Cuvier, Agassiz, Sedgwick and Murchison, none of whom resembled the caricatured fundamentalist "straw man" ...
248. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... standard solution of the problem; uranium takes thousands of millions of years to break down completely (supposedly to pure lead) and this cannot be observed; instead, the decay of the short-lived intermediate products is monitored. Physicists and chemists have found that there is no way in which they can disturb these subordinate decay processes so they apply their uniformitarian principles and assume that this also holds good for uranium. The heart of the problem, as Milton sees it, is the fact that all of the equations describing the decay process with respect to time involve a good deal of "fudging around": there are too many "unknowns". This fact together with the other assumptions ...
249. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology. Part One: Radiometric Chronometry [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , such as that of radon-222 which has a half-life of 3.82 days, do not apparently respond to any imposed stresses one is not really justified in assuming that the uranium-238 decay, whose half-life seems to be some 457 thousand million times that of radon-222, is also unaffected by its environment in any way. Unless one imposes strict uniformitarian constraints upon the environment (conditions which catastrophists cannot accept), the surroundings in which the uranium has awaited' its decay can have been very different from the environment in which we find the uranium containing minerals today. If we cannot guarantee its environment, can we realistically guarantee the other requirements implicit in the chronometric calculations? Some Ifs ...
250. The Polar Sun [Books]
... . (8 ) I must note, however, that I am not the first to observe this general principle. A recent volume by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, entitled Hamlet's Mill, offers the revolutionary conclusion that according to an ancient doctrine Saturn occupied the celestial pole. But the authors, maintaining an unqualified attachment to the uniformitarian premise, exclude in advance any extraordinary changes in the solar system. Instead they speak of Saturn's polar station as a "figure of speech" or astral allegory whose meaning remains to be penetrated. "What," they ask, "has Saturn, the far-out planet, to do with the Pole? .. . It is ...
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