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71 pages of results. 551. Pandemonium [Books] [de Grazia books]
... other factors. They stretch from 90 to 400 kilometers high, and on occasion seem to dip down to the very plane of the viewers. They, like all other fascinating phenomena of nature have been held responsible for the allegedly mad legendary accounts of catastrophes. Thus the ancient Teutons might recite their sagas of a world on fire, but uniformitarians, unimpressed, would see in these only the auroras that the northern peoples were lucky enough to view. This is a topic for another time and another author: spectres of colors, rays, and lurid skies were plentiful in cosmic disasters, exceeding the auroras. Every disaster has its color scheme and geometric figures. It has its ...
552. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... as Bob had feared. Our advertised speaker was our Chairman, Trevor Palmer, who presented his professorial lecture, delivered to an audience of non-catastrophists at Nottingham University the year before. The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism charted the history of ideas of catastrophism from original acceptance of geological evidence supporting biblical stories, through a period of rejection after Lyell's uniformitarian geology and Darwin's huge evolutionary time scales reinforced each other towards a completely gradualistic outlook and, finally, to the recent resurgence of catastrophism via the respectability of impact theories. All theories could be seen as products of their times. After Lyell and Darwin gradualism became so entrenched that even as late as 1993 catastrophism was still considered in some ...
553. Expansion and Contraction [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of years; the process here discussed would have occurred in perhaps three thousand years. Again, we rely upon a uniquely great exoterrestrial encounter to compress time, accomplishing in centuries what the aforesaid scientists have allocated as the task of very many millions of years. Any evidence at present of an expanding Earth, we would accredit to the extended uniformitarian tail of the exponential curve of quantavolution. Of the several attempts at demonstrating expansion, Meservy's appears most clear and valid. He shows that "the separation and movements of the continents in the last 150 million years cannot be explained by continental drift on the surface of the present-sized earth."[5 ] This he does topographically. ...
554. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... did suggest that such signals would support aspects of Velikovsky's assertions. On the question of Hartmann and Schmidt's theories of the Solar System, perhaps some quotations from Hartmann (W . Hartman, Birth of the Moon', Natural History, Nov. 1989, p. 68) will help readers to judge for themselves. After setting the standard uniformitarian stage with the prescribed 4.5 billion-year age of the solar system, Hartmann says: Otto Schmidt, a Soviet planetologist, argued that if each planet had formed separately from a single blob, their motions would be more random .. . As Schmidt pointed out, the solar system is, instead, quite orderly: with few ...
555. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , a seminal work in the burgeoning field of archaeoastronomy. A major premise of that work is that the planet Saturn assumed an unusual prominence in ancient lore. De Santillana and von Dechend were among the first to recognise Saturn's bizarre association with the Pole and celestial kingship, for example [7b]. Moreover, although the authors offered a uniformitarian explanation for their findings - diffusion of prehistoric knowledge of the precession of the equinoxes - their researches point to the planets as central figures in ancient myth and religion: The real actors on the stage of the universe are very few, if their adventures are many. The most ancient treasure' - in Aristotle's word - that was left ...
556. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... work on exponential curves, so do populations of all living forms. Indeed, unwilling as they may be to accept such a defense, one of the best arguments for Darwinian adaptation is the capacity of all living things to increase from a pair to billions in a numbers of years. There would be no need for exponential population growth under uniformitarian conditions. But population explosions themselves are an indirect proof of catastrophes. Since the time of Boulanger, quantavolutionary thought has arrived at a number of additional conclusions about the "Deluge." These are at odds with conventional science, yet have been using more and more the findings of conventional science. Boulanger and others have talked of " ...
557. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... effects in terms of material human culture - in other words, to identify it archaeologically. So where is the catastrophe? In my opinion, the Saturnist position is no longer catastrophist but, to borrow an expression from my friend Han Kloosterman, actually crypto-uniformitarian'. Indeed, psychologically it seems to have fallen into the same trap as the uniformitarian philosophy, with a vision of a safe, unchanging universe. In the Saturnist model the gods' danced about each other in the Polar Configuration, inspiring the world's great myths from a respectable distance. When we were separated from this majestic pageant, instead of being completely annihilated (as common sense would suggest) the human race somehow ...
558. An Investigation into the Reality of the Early Medieval Dark Age [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the vernal equinox in 1582, when it occurred on 11 March, and in 325 AD. In that year, during the Council of Nicea (convened by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great) the vernal equinox was recorded as falling on 21 March. For the conventional chronology, the 10-day movement is exactly in line with calculations using uniformitarian assumptions, because in the Julian calendar the average length of a year was 365 25 days, whereas it is actually 365 242199 days, a difference of 11mins./year [9 , 10]. In contrast, if a phantom period of approximately 300 years has been inserted between 600 AD and 900 AD', as claimed ...
559. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Even further away, off the coast of Africa, half of one of the Canary Islands is apparently poised to fall catastrophically into the sea. It is calculated that the resulting tidal wave could be up to 650 metres above normal sea level and would race across the Atlantic to devastate the east coast of America. It seems that cosy old uniformitarian world is fast disappearing. Iron In Ocean Inhibits Carbon Dioxide Volkskrant, Dec. 2 2000. A major fertilisation experiment in antarctic waters south of Cape Town is just succesfully ended. An area of 50 square kilometres is fertilised with a concentrated iron solution. .. . this increased the algea growth and a depletion of 400 tonnes of ...
560. Calendars [Journals] [Kronos]
... (Such a sequence of four years that feature the same situation is often called a "quadrennium".) 3. -1321 was the last year before + 136 in which a Thoth I Egyptian would have fallen on a July 20 Julian. 4. Thoth I Egyptian = July 19 Julian, from -1320 to -1317. 5. By uniformitarian retrocalculation, Sirius would have risen heliacally on July 19 Julian for several millennia, including not only the fourteenth century before this era but also the time of the Canopus Decree in the third century. The July 19 Julian date provided by the Canopus Decree for -238 and the July 20 Julian date given by Censorinus for + 139 serve to ...
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