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71 pages of results. 451. Keeper of Genesis by Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Belt, constructed in relation to the Nile as a representation of the Milky Way. In Keeper of Genesis, Bauval and Hancock investigate the possible significance of alignments in the sky and on the ground, extrapolating back in time on the assumption that the Earth suffered no significant interference by external forces during the relevant period. That is the general uniformitarian view but it is queried by catastrophists. Bauval and Hancock conclude that there was a perfect meridian-to-meridian alignment of the dominant axis of the Orion's Belt / Milky Way region with that of the corresponding features on the ground in 10,500 BC but not in 2,500BC. This sounds impressive but precisely what they mean by dominant axis ...
452. Velikovsky And Cultural Amnesia [Journals] [Pensee]
... phenomenon in Greece more closely if Ages in Chaos is correct. 2) Dr. George Grinnell (history department, McMaster University). "Catastrophism and Uniformity-a Probe into the Origins of the 1832 Gestalt Shift in Western Science." The second paper was aimed at laying bare the tissue of non-geological considerations behind the fabrication of the principles of uniformitarianism. That intellectual event, Grinnell argued, is less well explained by Charles Lyell's objective encounter with geological evidence than by his membership in the London Geological Society, a group of amateurs (doctors, lawyers, and M.P . 's) who at the time of the 1832 Reform Bill were meeting to discuss the theological and ...
453. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... Americas and Asia have utilized." (22) Aristotle- who believed the Milky Way derived from a sort of terrestrial whirlwind. (Illustration by Charles Hogarth) While we would be inclined to agree with Schele et al. that ancient conceptions surrounding the celestial bodies constitute one of a handful of intellectual treasures, we cannot agree with the uniformitarian assumptions which underlie their researches and which, ultimately, color and undermine their conclusions. Again and again the Maya traditions speak of previous world ages brought to an end under cataclysmic circumstances- of lost suns which once dominated the skies but have long since moved away. (23) The mythical rope of heaven, similarly, is said ...
454. The Origin of Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... the beginning of written-language records." (16) But such records do no better than indicate the former existence of still earlier- and fully developed- language. Moreover, no satisfying theory can be expected from orthodox science, since such theories are, and undoubtedly will continue to be, directly or indirectly constrained by the artificial limitations of uniformitarian philosophy. LANGUAGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS Julian Jaynes has attempted to establish a link between language and consciousness. In doing so, he has suggested that language- and written language at that- preceded consciousness. He claims that written language was somehow responsible for the advent of consciousness. (17) This of course implies the recency of historical times ...
455. The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... . the sun sat on the horizon only about .1 north of the stone's peak, but so slow is the change (decrease) in the obliquity of the ecliptic that the sun did not sit exactly atop the peak of the stone at summer solstice for another 400 to 450 years. What this means is that even by using the uniformitarians' own method of retrograde calculation, the Heel Stone could not be said to have been set up, nor the Aubrey holes dug, as early as 2000 B.C . (let alone 2800 B.C .) if, as it is usually claimed, the monument was constructed precisely with the summer solstice alignment in view ...
456. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... them into vague and dream-like oral traditions. What seems to me to put Velikovsky into a category distinct from such "true believers" as Erich von Däniken and his followers is the fact that Velikovsky's record as a scientific prognosticator far exceeds not only theirs but also that of more conventional scientists whose view of both solar and terrestrial history is rigidly uniformitarian. Among the predictions made by Velikovsky in the 1940's which have been confirmed by subsequent discovery are these: that Jupiter produces radio emissions; that Venus is incandescently hot; and that Earth has a magnetosphere.(13) Although no major representative of the international scientific establishment will explicitly admit that Velikovsky's predictions can be ascribed to anything more ...
457. Letters To The Edttor [Journals] [Aeon]
... Cochrane apparently sees as a "growing trend in scholarly circles" to recognize a configuration of planetary bodies at the north pole: "Velikovsky, Talbott, de Santillana and von Dechend, Cardona, and myself [that is, Cochrane]". I found this list of beneficiaries somewhat puzzling. Since de Santillana and von Dechend are strictly uniformitarian, it seems unlikely that they would embrace any such "growing trend" as "vindication" of their own work. And since Velikovsky never bought into northernism at all, but in fact criticized it, he doesn't seem to be much of a beneficiary either. Finally, since Frederic Jueneman appears to have claimed priority over David Talbott ...
458. Indra and Brhaspati (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... The fact remains that Isenberg's objection concerns an equation which has neither been proposed, nor is liable to be easily accepted, by students of Hindu mythology. At this point I would like to be blunt and ask: So what? Are we, in our mytho-planetary identifications, bound to follow in the same rut which has been trod by uniformitarian mythologists? Did Velikovsky? Did Isenberg? As Velikovskian scholars- and I use that term in a most general sense- we cannot always be content with what mythologists generally accept and/or reject. As catastrophists in a uniformitarian world, we are often forced to go against accepted tenets in the search for truth. One of Velikovsky's ...
459. Karl Popper and Evolutionary Theory (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... here except to say that if Davis were to be fined a modest 100 dollars for every inexcusable error committed in this relatively short piece of less than 450 words, then he would have to survive at least a solid month or two without income. Capitalizing on Davis' mentioning "the geologist Charles Lyell", who replaced catastrophism with his uniformitarian view of nature, William J. Douglas of Rockville, MD observed: Davis speaks of "the uncomfortable grain of truth" in Velikovsky's thinking. But surely he should not object to getting some facts straight. Charles Lyell was not a geologist, but a lawyer, and his Principles of Geology was a political, rather than scientific ...
460. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... would be little possibility of explaining the legends, because the true ocean bottoms are uniformly of igneous basaltic Sima. Sial cannot be sought in the Sima, either; the two have different origins and do not mix. The widespread evidence of marine life on the land, found at all altitudes, does not prove, as many catastrophists and uniformitarians believe, that the land was once below the sea, and below the sea lies other land. They have not caught up with the new oceanography. The marine beds on the land are the residue of floods, tides, fall-outs from typhoons, and dried-up shallow seas. The reports of sunken lands are important pieces in the great ...
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