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71 pages of results. 571. From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Fearful Symmetry of Catastrophism [Journals] [Kronos]
... human race, we are afraid to face our past. But as Santayana wrote, those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it and- this time, I am afraid, in a man-made thermonuclear holocaust."(18) It is fallacious for modern man to believe that he is immune from catastrophism behind a shield of uniformitarian protection. Global catastrophes are not dependent upon human time or human presence. As Velikovsky has already stated in Earth in Upheaval ( 1955): "There were global catastrophes in prehuman times, in prehistoric times, and in historical times. We are descendants of survivors, themselves descendants of survivors."(19) Yet modern man ...
572. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and a Museum curator was allowed to explain the scientific nature of the exhibitions. The interviewer was not sympathetic to Dr Halstead, and ended up trying to corner him into the accusation of political subversion by the Museum. It was pointed out to us by Mr Shannon that Dr George Grinnell had stated that political considerations are at the heart of uniformitarianism (see PENSEE IVR I, p. 43; X, p. 47): this is as true now as ever. Readers well versed in History will doubtless know this fact also: Marx was a great enthusiast of the Darwinian theories, and he even tried to dedicate a book to Darwin. Darwin, for his part ...
573. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Swedish company. The other objection is astrophysical. It is a common opinion among astrophysicists that electric fields in interplanetary space are negligible because of the high conductivity of the plasma that is flowing out from the Sun (the solar wind). Without electric fields, there can be no electric discharges! We can meet this objection by abandoning the uniformitarian notion that conditions in the solar system have always been the same. If Velikovsky was correct in assuming that the Deluge was caused by a nova within the solar system, then interplanetary space would have been filled with hydrogen gas ejected by the nova. It may have taken thousands of years before this gas was gone (collected and absorbed ...
574. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 8 /81, pp.529-31) that floral changes at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary indicate gradual rather than catastrophic change for the death of the dinosaurs which came in for rough handling in our last "Monitor" (Workshop 4:2 , p. 23), were afforded considerably gentler treatment from the New Scientist. Continuing to man the uniformitarian ramparts the following week, New Scientist printed a letter from L. B. Halstead citing the work of J. D. Archibald (Nature Vol. 291, p. 650) as documenting a gradual, and not a catastrophic, turnover in mammal life-forms at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. And on 10/9 /81, they ...
575. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... have been directly responsible for inciting the greatest revision of cosmology in our space of the Universe since Galileo." William Corliss, reporting on Gould's similar conclusion after a study of pre-Cambrian life forms ( 'The Ediacaran Experiment') also comments with some surprise: "Punctuated equilibrium and a theory of mass extinction; what a philosophical leap from Uniformitarianism!" We would like to suggest that Gould re-reads WORLDS IN COLLISION and EARTH IN UPHEAVAL and his own EVER SINCE DARWIN, and if he cannot bring himself to an apology, at least he might spare a blush. Reverse Plate Tectonics?source: NEW SCIENTIST 1.11.84, p.20 The theory of plate ...
576. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that the Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead contain no references to a catastrophic Morning Star and argues ex silentio that there should be such references if Venus had done what Velikovsky claimed. On the Venus Tablets of Ammizaduga he is on shaky ground, for "the Velikovskians have a point here, and they are right to give the uniformitarians tough time." But, argues Forrest, the Tablets are full of astrological references which are little different in principle from modern astrological references to many celestial bodies. So he considers that witness to be discredited. Origin of Tektites?sources: NEW SCIENTIST 21.3 .85, p.13: SCIENCE vol.227, ...
577. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... thought to drift evenly down, the rate depending on the level of bioproduction and being indicative of variables such as world temperatures and carbon dioxide levels. Further additions to these sedimental\ layers may be material blown from land by storms in sub-tropical regions, and ash or dust from volcanic or extra-terrestrial events. All this can be neatly dated using uniformitarian assumptions. The deep currents which are known to flow from the cold polar regions to the equator have little effect upon this scenario, but now scientists have discovered a new and massive disturbing effect. Where these currents are deflected westwards by the Coriolis force (a factor due to Earth's spin), frequent and massive storms' in the ...
578. Early Historic Man - Catastrophism and Calendars [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... drier or colder, and then in 750 BC we arrive at the sub-Atlantic which is our present climate, but which around that time was really a very big and sudden degradation of the climate, and much wetter than were all the periods before. By climatologists it is generally accepted that the climates varied gradually, following the sacred laws of Uniformitarianism. But in 750 BC, they accept nevertheless that the onset of the sub-Atlantic climate was abrupt. If that climatic change was abrupt, why shouldn't the others have been abrupt? And it can be shown that they were abrupt, because now we pass from palaeoclimatology to archaeology. Archaeology shows us that historical periods have always arrived at ...
579. Catastrophism and the Mammoths- III (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... 93) Nor do I claim to have full knowledge as to how the frozen specimens were preserved. Obviously, there are multifarious possible explanations which, alone or in combination, meet the observed facts.(94) I agree wholeheartedly with Ellenberger that no categorical solution to the problem can as yet be given; and that "Catastrophists and uniformitarians, alike, have their jobs cut out for themselves" . My chief concern throughout has been that frozen mammoths alone provide but a flimsy basis upon which to build a theory. Furthermore, the "evidence" presented by the preservation of these beasts is equivocal in that it can be used in support of diverse hypotheses, some even ...
580. The Oracle of Cadmus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Graves, op. cit., 14c. 46. Ibid., 14:5 . 47. Isaiah 12. 48. Graves, op. cit., 59:5 . 49. Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery. London: Futura, 1979, 172. While Temple's work is limited and, indeed, distorted by uniformitarian assumptions, and by his interpretation of great amounts of astronomical myth material to support his "visitors from Sirius" theory, it is a mine of fascinating information and stimulating discussion. This quotation is from his discussion of Stecchini's work (op. cit.) on the oracle centers. 50. Oedipus and Akhnaton, "The Seven-Gated ...
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