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71 pages of results. 521. Solomon's Temple: An Astronomical Observatory [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... astronomy. New studies recognize a graphic relationship between ancient calendar signs and the most ancient shapes of the Hebrew-Phoenician alphabet. Actually- and unfortunately- this correspondence was recognized long ago by the 17th century scholar, Athanasius Kircher.10 But the studies of such matters lapsed in the 18th century after the academic world became increasingly absorbed with noncatastrophic or uniformitarian views of the solar system. Indeed, Kircher called the Hebrew alphabet "celestial" because the shapes of the letters conformed to the shapes of constellations. He also affirmed that Moses invented the alphabet. Such matters are almost universally denied today. I judge that future studies will reaffirm this old thesis, at least to the extent that ...
522. Untitled [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... TO them? Mr. Cardona's argument, citing Hershel Shanks of Biblical Archaeology Review, that the south end of the Dead Sea could not have contained cities at any time from 3000 B.C . onwards is also tendentious, dishonest and misleading. Mr. Cardona, of course, neglects to note that Mr. Shanks is a conventional uniformitarian in his geological assumptions, and therefore follows the conventional geological view that no major upheaval could have transformed the Dead Sea region of the Jordan Rift Valley in recent geological times. Apply a Velikovskian context, such as Mr. Cardona is only too happy to follow when it suits him for his Saturn theories, and the assumptions which underlie ...
523. Some Preliminary Remarks About Ice Cores [Journals] [Kronos]
... the more significant aspects of de Grazia's discussion of ice cores. These are often in the form of very important questions that de Grazia raises. Some of those questions have never received adequate study. Do particles migrate downward in the ice? Have anomalous areas in the cores been skipped or ignored? Isn't the published record too uniform even for uniformitarians? "Could this be a defined' hence spurious uniformity?" (See page 104.) Such questions hold no interest for Ellenberger. He thinks that the answer to each of de Grazia's questions is No. I would like to see solid proof of that. Such proof has not yet been forthcoming, either from Ellenberger or ...
524. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of the crust. It is admitted that a rising plume of extra hot mantle cannot explain this and that hot spots are not themselves responsible for rifting, but the authors are reluctant to consider theories such as impacting asteroids. In the face of many unanswered questions they are content to regard all volcanic outbursts as fitting easily within the framework of uniformitarianism'. The idea of decompression melting in association with spreading centres was first put forward in our pages by member David Slade (see Workshop 1988:1 , pp. 42-3). Slade postulates not only that decompression melting is powered by the action of tides upon the Earth's crust, but also that it is this ceaseless repetitive action ...
525. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... , the answer is no. Let us suppose that- where translators and astronomers are concerned, the reader is of a particularly suspicious cast of mind. Supposing that, somehow, the event in which "the sun was obscured" was not an eclipse after all- could the calculation have been fudged? That is, suppose a perfidious uniformitarian knew from another source, such as The Bamboo Annals, that the event had occurred in a certain year and decided to "identify" it with an available eclipse date in that year. Can an identification be made so casually? A simple calculation will show that it cannot. From Oppolzer's Canon of Eclipses(21) it appears ...
526. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... punctuation, points and little during the equilibrium periods, yet the researchers still insist on calling this Darwinian evolution. It seems a far cry from the random mutation and continual ongoing natural selection of the traditional Darwinian theory to a scenario which suggests a positive, almost Lamarckian, drive for change when needed. Isn't it time scientists finally admitted that uniformitarianism is dead and that they themselves have killed it? Fossil with a sting in its tail The Sunday Times 21.11.93, pp. 26-27 A professional hunter of fossils among the Carboniferous deposits of Scotland keeps amazing palaeontologists with his finds. There was Lizzie the oldest lizard, the earliest harvestmen and millipedes, freshwater sharks and ...
527. The Center Holds [Journals] [Pensee]
... space to chronology of catastrophes described in Worlds in Collision; much of the material is meant only as decisive evidence for catastrophism in general. The geologists therefore are left with the enormous labor of distinguishing, to the limited extent possible, among effects of a series of catastrophes extending indefinitely back in time. No longer free to appeal to the uniformitarian notion that the record is incomplete, they will have to pay more serious attention to the fact that alterations between strata are abrupt. It is, of course, impossible to reconstruct celestial events from the geological record alone. Confronted with evidence from times before the memory of man, the geologist can only describe the nature of the change ...
528. "Let There Be Light" - A Criticism [Journals] [Kronos]
... after each successive cosmic implosion (i .e ., about once every 80 billion years!). These theorists, however, do not assert their views as proved but only as plausible. And I do not assert change in any macrocosmic law as demonstrated but only as possible. More precisely, what I am arguing against is the uniformitarian doctrine that major planetary changes not only did not occur but could not have occurred in recent times. Such dogma, I think, is an unjustifiable obstacle to continued investigation and further discovery. ON THE THERMAL ASPECTS OF VENUS To the Editor of KRONOS: In KRONOS IV:2 , C;. R. Talbott(1 ) ...
529. Radiocarbon Dating and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... are found to correlate, such correlations would support a general catastrophic theory. If they cluster near 1500 B.C . or 750 B.C . they would support Velikovsky's dating of the catastrophes. In his analysis of the existing data MacKie (47) has indicated that the discontinuities may not be random, as would be expected from uniformitarian principles. But as his analysis relies on dates accumulated by various laboratories (whose methods differed), the accuracy is limited. Clearly, systematic sample selection and radiocarbon determination are needed. Analyze radiocarbon calibration data for changes in the earth's ambient (average) carbon 13 ratio. Velikovsky describes the introduction of extraterrestrial carbon into the earth's atmosphere ...
530. A Criticism of the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... he argues that it is reflected in Assyrian texts as well as biblical accounts (9 ). Can Egyptian history be shifted by more than half a millennium as Velikovsky's synchronisms demand? The absolute dates assigned to Egyptian rulers or dynasties are calculated on the basis of ancient king lists and ancient references to astronomical phenomena. Since Velikovsky has questioned the uniformitarian assumptions upon which such calculations depend , almost all absolute dates in Egypt become questionable. However, even without absolute dates historians and archaeologists can establish a relative chronology of events and cultural periods against which Velikovsky's theories can be tested. Does the archaeological evidence from the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean favor a chronology in which the beginning of ...
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