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71 pages of results. 531. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... theory? Why was Venus represented as female? Why was Mars viewed as male? Why would the recurring, relatively mundane, conjunction of these two planets be linked to Creation and universal fertility? Not one of these questions receives clarification under the conventional view. There is a wealth of evidence, in fact, which is inconsistent with a uniformitarian interpretation of Skidi mythology. That there was a catastrophic background to the events in question is suggested by the tradition that a period of prolonged darkness preceded Morning Star's consorting with Venus. Thus it is reported that Morning Star "traveled in darkness looking for her (i .e ., Venus)." [59] That this ...
532. San Francisco, February 25, 1974 [Journals] [Pensee]
... to arrive at "agreement" with modern calculations: nine are "impossibly wrong for any chronology (presumably scribal errors), and six more are marginal." Responding, Velikovsky reviewed his arguments, given in Worlds in Collision but not alluded to by Huber, as to why the Venus Tablets of Ammizaduga cannot be doctored up to fit uniformitarian assumptions. He made the further point that the calendar in use at the time of the records was one having 12 months of 30 days each, without any intercalary months, a point Huber disputed. 3) As to ancient eclipses, Huber argued that of "37 precisely dated eclipses" from -1719 to -480, "three . ...
533. Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles [Journals] [Aeon]
... x 1028 Nm.). How did this happen? The proffering of mathematics concerning a semi-fluid gyroscope can be of great value. However, a hasty assumption related to velocity can lead to questionable conclusions. Patten and Windsor have offered a better explanation of planetary rotation, and magnetic field inversion, one that is far superior to that of uniformitarian dogma from which scientists, including Charles Hapgood, have been trying to extricate themselves. [2 ] A far more reasoned cosmogony of the Solar System is sorely needed. The model presently adhered to ignores too much. Flavio Barbiero Replies: Rhodes' critique seems to be supportive of my theory since, after all, his criticisms do ...
534. Testing Rohl's Test of Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... mysterious numbers of the Hebrew Kings" and towards an explanation of which he was obliged to devote the major and disproportionate portion of his book which he considers all very wonderful. Absolutely to the contrary, this writer declares that all mystery associated with the final section of Thiele's reconstruction has been synthetically induced by uncritical dependence on the doctrine of cosmic uniformitarianism. Ptolemy's unstated but implicit warning, that the art of retrocalculation beyond the Era of Nabonassar is impossible, was ignored and Thiele has been forced to pay a heavy price (as, by extension, so have we). Pinned to the unforeseen and completely understandable folly (it being the only game in town) of relying on ...
535. The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... the incalculable sums we invest annually in tools of learning- books and institutions and teachers, all passing on tenets about the past, the nature of the solar system, the evolution of the earth, the origins of man, the emergence of civilization, the birth of the first ritual, literary and artistic traditions- all fundamentally rooted in uniformitarian error. Or the billions in funding of research institutions around the world seeking to penetrate the mysteries of the past, institutions that are, in fact, chasing chimeras. They are asking the wrong questions, and they have no framework for understanding the answers even when these answers stare them in the face. But that's only the beginning ...
536. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Professor Claude Schaeffer would attend was not borne out and the authors of a promising paper on the eruption of Thera, D. B. and C. J. Vitaliano, also failed to materialise. The stated aim of the symposium was to initiate a debate about the causes of past destructions of Bronze Age sites between those broadly favouring a uniformitarian view - i.e . who held that such destructions were local in extent and were not necessarily related to one another - and those prepared to consider the possibility that the destructions might have been part of more widespread disasters of some kind. The muted implication of this aim was that theories of global cataclysms, such as those of ...
537. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... Evolution Mystery, pp. 6ff.) is basically a variant of the "cataclysmic evolution" first proposed by Velikovsky in Earth in Upheaval. Gould's open criticism of Velikovsky, while publicly paraphrasing the latter's insights, makes him highly questionable and, therefore, a poor witness- Dismissed. Norman Newell (also quoted twice) was a devout uniformitarian whose scholarly stance is both antiquated and untenable (see L.M . Greenberg, "Cataclysmic Evolution", KRONOS I:4 (1976), pp. 102-103). As a witness, Newell is discredited- Dismissed. Quoting Martin Bernal against anyone gives new meaning to the expression "People who live in glass houses. ...
538. Afterword [Journals] [Kronos]
... non-gravitational effects, of electromagnetic interactions.... This is a retreat of unprecedented significance. My opponents of the 1950's would not permit the smallest concession regarding their dictum that only gravitation and inertia account for celestial motions. They put themselves on record in print. Celestial near-collisions could have happened, according to Mulholland, who here sheds the uniformitarian dogmas. Giant tides, global earthquakes, changes of the direction of the celestial axis would have resulted. "There is no faith here; these are unavoidable consequences of the laws of motion". But whether all this happened depends on historical and archeological evidence that can be presented. He criticizes a few single cases like the case ...
539. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 2) [Journals] [Kronos]
... of information about a 15th century B. C. catastrophe supposedly proves it did not happen. The critics would well be reminded that an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Furthermore, the evidence that does exist (e .g ., the Venus tablets of Ammizaduga, myth, and sacred texts) is systematically interpreted using uniformitarian assumptions leading automatically to conclusions contravening Velikovsky's interpretation. This alleged lack of evidence is largely due to a discounting of Velikovsky's literary sources coupled, perhaps, with our present reliance on representational visual imagery, e.g ., photographs, cinema, and videotape. It should be stressed that Velikovsky found abundant ancient evidence for the catastrophes that ...
540. On Saturn At the North Pole [Journals] [Aeon]
... comes up with something worthy of further consideration, I shall let those earlier remarks convey my overall position on the issue of flooding. The only other observation that I might offer here is that we should not be in any hurry to accept the conventional evolutionary time-table. Ashton repeatedly indicates his disagreement with cataclysmic evolution and his deep admiration for conventional uniformitarian evolution, presumably operative via natural selection. Those biases of his are not ones that I share, and I do not feel obliged to accept any of the tired old arguments that rest upon those highly-controversial presuppositions. Ashton tells us confidently that: The Saturnward tidal pull would in this way cause a Saturnward oceanic bulge in the order of ...
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