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... anger among members of scientific bodies. But there has been a storm every time a leaf in the book of knowledge has been turned . . ." [41o:foreword]. Velikovsky and his supporters recounted instances from the past iii which the conventional scientific wisdom had roundly rejected new ideas that later were to win approval. Thus "uniformitarianism" --the idea that the earth's surface has been modified only slowly- was condemned as thoroughly unscientific, or worse, by then-conventional "catastrophists" before the middle of the nineteenth century; now the conventional uniformitarians were rejecting the new catastrophism of Vehikovsky [142]. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for cosmological heresies [429] ...
462. 094book.htm [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Vol. 2, No. 1; "Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests," in SISR, Vol. 14. Hapgood has very strong circumstantial evidence of a major Holocene warming in Antarctica which partly overlapped the maximal advance of the Wisconsinan Glaciation 18,000 bp. Warm climates in polar latitudes cannot be reconciled with uniformitarian geophysics; they point to global catastrophe of some sort. Another amazing map is the Hadji Ahmed World Map of 1559, of Turkish origin, shown in Figure 58. By far its outstanding feature is the very modern configuration of North and South America. Also noteworthy is the "Beringia" or land bridge connecting North America and Asia ...
463. Of Lessons, Legacies, and Litmus Tests: A Velikovsky Potpourri (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... in August 1978 Warlow wrote to Sizemore that his forthcoming paper was intended to be a "Trojan horse" with which to introduce discussion of Velikovsky's work into the mainstream scientific literature. These points constitute overwhelmingly coercive evidence against Salkeld's delusion regarding Warlow's intentions. Ignotum per Ignotius (10) "Catastrophism in the pursuit of delusion is no virtue; uniformitarianism in the defense of reality is not a vice."- Anonymous "A ground rule for science is anything is possible. ' But perhaps we should apply a variant of this to pseudoscience: everything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about. '"- David Whitehouse, New Scientist, 7 April 1983 In ...
464. Sothic Dating: A "Surrealjoinder" (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... (retrocalculated) heliacal risings in an Egyptian Julian quadrennium fell on July 18 Julian would have been sometime in the first half of the first millennium before this era. (It should be noted that such decisions about the heliacal risings of Sirius in + 139 or at the time of the Canopus Decree still provide no adequate foundation for the usual uniformitarian claims about "Sothic periods" in Egyptian history. Those claims rest upon uniformitarian presumption. In particular, there is no proof that Sirius rose heliacally on Thoth 1 at any time in the fourteenth century before this era.) I did indeed take Parker to be serious about his assumption of "a constant four-year cycle back to the ...
465. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... previously held ideas of upthrusts consequent upon subduction. The massive mountain building in the North American Cordillera, c.50 Myr ago, an event stretching up to 1500 kilometres inland, could be tied in with the collision with a large continental block derived from the region of southern Mexico. Geology, like evolution, is beginning to punctuate its uniformitarian equilibria. Saturn Electrostatic Discharges sources: Science Frontiers no.24, Nov./Dec. 1982 Nature 299, p. 236 One of the findings of the Voyager mission to Saturn was the strong bursts of radio emissions with a period of 10 hours and 10 minutes. These strong radio emissions were called "Saturn Electrostatic Discharges" ...
466. Ocean Basins [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , which will be treated soon in more detail, were not submerged beneath the oceans until the ocean basins stopped growing and their waters crept up upon the continental blocks and shelves. The seas do not come in and kidnap the land; they beat back the detritus and even build land. Thus the great slopes could not have formed under uniformitarian conditions or even underwater. Prolonged, universal run-off of deluge and catastrophic tidal water produced slopes; the blocks were often towering water falls, dropping sheets of slurry into the abyss to form the slopes. The coarse gravel typical of the slopes far out to sea signals the impetuous rush and transporting power of the waters going to fill the ...
467. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... not to medieval and even eastern physics and cosmology. In his framework, one which, by the way, is coming more and more to be accepted in science itself as we approach the 21st century, cosmic and earthly stability are interims between the violent moments of cataclysm which have always punctuated (to use biologist Niles Eldredge's word) the uniformitarian epochs which science alone records. This means nothing less than that Germanic science is being forced to agree with the Jewish Bible, as Germanic history has also had to, and every other discipline which Velikovsky's theories affect. By playing the Socratic role of the seemingly-naive but thereby more perceptive outsider, by saying he did nothing but look again ...
468. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 23 (? ) Dynasty to a considerably earlier date than that argued by Mr Clapham. - M.J .S . Kentish Catastrophes - a Reply to MacKinnon Dear Sir, The formation of chalk beds and their characteristics are of considerable interest. They are presented in the literature as a good example of sediments which are fully consistent with uniformitarian principles. By contrast, MacKinnon writes (Workshop 4:3 , pp. 37-8) that they are testimony in support of catastrophism on a massive scale. This letter is intended to provide some critical comment on MacKinnon's argument, and also to raise some other questions which may enable the topic to be discussed further. MacKinnon is convinced ...
469. Anomalistics - a New Field of Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... 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 Daeniken and his followers is the fact that Velikovsky's record as a scientific prognosticator far exceeds riot 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 the sun does riot emit the neutrinos which the thermonuclear model of stellar structure and function requires; that Jupiter produces radio emissions; that Venus is incandescently hot; and that Earth has a magnetosphere. 13 Although no major representative ...
470. The Methodology of Patten's Martian Scenario [Journals] [Aeon]
... and khima . Kheyci l is Jupiter (and the month in the Jewish calendar of Chislieu or Kislev is thus named after Jupiter). Khima is the planet Saturn. Thus, in the Book of Job, these three are the triad of planets that were once in orbital resonance with the Earth and with each other. Rabbis of the uniformitarian era mistranslated these three as constellations, Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades. Christian scholars to date have followed suit. (87) In the first place, neither in Job 9:9 nor in Job 38:32 is Ayish found "coupled with Ma' (the great)." The word "great" is used twenty ...
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