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71 pages of results. 541. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is that if you go back in time for several million years the Ice Ages seem to fade out altogether. All recent studies within the Milankovitch framework show people struggling with very small changes to the various parameters, trying to exaggerate the effect. In Warlow's opinion, the Milankovitch theory simply does not work. The most celebrated evidence against the uniformitarian concept of the Ice Ages is the discovery of frozen mammoths in Siberia. Fred Hoyle co-authored a paper in 1979 which was very scathing about the Milankovitch theory, and in which the observation was made that if a reindeer falls down a crevasse in Greenland - in the coldest conditions on Earth - and stays there, it will start to ...
542. THE ROAD TO SATURN (EXCERPTS FROM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY) [Journals] [Aeon]
... to my attention or exactly when. In this work, published in 1969, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend analyzed some of the most obscure motifs in all of mythology and came up with a cosmic interpretation. This was refreshing, to say the least. Even so, they hamstrung themselves by disallowing any conclusions that threatened to trespass uniformitarian precepts. What these authors proposed was that ancient man derived his beliefs concerning the end of all things from the slow displacement of the pole star through the precession of the equinoxes over the millennia. Cosmic catastrophism was explained as the dissolution of an order brought about by this slow change in the celestial sphere. Creation consisted in the establishment ...
... comet showers could also be produced by an unseen planet, Planet X, lying beyond the orbit of Pluto... The idea of a missing planet in our solar system has been kicking around for a long time because of possible (but debatable) discrepancies between observed and predicted motions of the outer planets." Apparently, because the uniformitarian astronomers need this large body to fulfil their views, it is perfectly plausible for it to exist, while Sagan denounces the possibility of a large body one-fifth the size of Planet X based on comparison of masses. Sagan does not seem to understand the nature of the evidence he offers as refutation. In fact, this is exactly what ...
544. Instability of Super Uranus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was born and the initial creative happenings occurred in all aspects of existence. Ever thereafter, the practices and rules of the religion are obsessed with repeating the events of those days. It is obvious that all peoples look upon this epoch, illud tempus, as a highly volatile quantavolutionary period, full of stresses and inventions. There is no uniformitarian or mild illud tempus. In many places, a theory of the Cosmic Egg is used in connection with the earliest god, who is Heaven; it explains how God and the World were born. Thus the Hindus asserted that a seed was laid and became the Golden Egg. The Cosmic Egg is often said to have existed from ...
545. On the Disproportion between Geological Time and Historical Time Part One - Of Apes and Men [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the present day [4 ]. According to the modern view, the Earth was formed about 4,600 million years ago, life originated perhaps 3,600 million years ago, and man, beginning with Homo habilis, evolved from his ancestors about 2 million years ago. These billions of years are of course deductions, based on uniformitarian assumptions about past rates of radioactive decay; they have no independent reality. Recorded time does not go back further than the first dynasty of Egypt, according to recent estimates c.2900 BC. Geological time dwarfs historical time by a factor of almost 1,000,000! Even if we restrict ourselves to Homo sapiens, who ...
546. The Continuing Evolution of Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... (and still are) in shaping our perceptions about evolution. The written word is not ignored, however, with chapters contributed by such eminent evolutionary biologists as Michael Benton, John Sepkoski Jr., Christine Janis, Peter Andrews and Christopher Stringer. In the Introduction, which is intended to provide a perspective, Benton outlines the formulation of uniformitarianism (gradualism) and catastrophism in the early nineteenth century. There is no mention of the words religion' or dogma' in connection with the catastrophists, such as would have been inevitable only a few years ago. Instead, Benton simply comments: The first theory does explain a lot, but that does not exclude the possibilities raised ...
547. Language and Thought in Ancient Egypt (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... so-called Principle of Parsimony, better known as "Occam's Razor," as having dominated Western science since the days of the Medieval Scholastic philosophers. This principle, which mandates maximal simplification in the analysis of nearly all problems, seems to me to underlie Behaviorism, Logical Positivism, and most of the other reductionistic philosophies of our day, including Uniformitarianism. In a few cases, Talbott's phraseology is so opaque that one can only guess what he means. An example of this opacity is found on p. 28, where he writes that "there is no parallel between Coptic and some other language of the kind that persists between, say, English and French". Here one ...
548. The Blasted Career of the Mighty Swordsman [Books] [de Grazia books]
... its photographs. Little erosion has occurred. It was as if, some said, a highly vigorous water system had carved itself onto Mars' face and then all the water had been instantly removed. How fresh is "fresh"? No one will speak up, unless one has a prior theory (the Velikovsky position). The uniformitarians are hesitant. "One week?" "Impossible, we would have photographed it." "One century?" "No, we would have observed something going on through our telescopes." "One-two-three thousand years?" "Events of this magnitude even then would have caused apparitions that are neither recorded nor geologically possible if ...
549. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... demigods, planetary or otherwise. When a celestial reference is forced upon Athena, the Sun or Moon or other bodies are called upon. This has resulted in the Sun, workaday Helios, being elevated to a divine status such as he never achieved in the minds of the ancients. If the minds of scholars had not been embraced by uniformitarian principles, that is, the ideology of science of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, they might have asked, as for instance in this case, why "shining by day" should be the exclusive prerogative of Helios or, at least, why bother to name a god by this trait which is so ordinary and expected? ...
550. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... it is a real phenomenon. We are dealing with a real physical force, as real as gravity and magnetism. ' The fast flip New Scientist 30.3 .96, pp. 24-28 and 11.5 .96, p. 51 The usual assumption that Earth's frequent magnetic reversals take place slowly (like everything else in a uniformitarian world) over thousands of years is being strongly questioned by geologists studying a pile of lava flows in Oregon. Lava flows cool in a matter of weeks and permanently record the direction of the Earth's magnetic field at the time and two flows in this area seem to record a reversal occurring so fast that an observers would almost have seen ...
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