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71 pages of results. 581. Science, Technology and the Chronology of the Ancient World [Journals] [Aeon]
... Earth's rotational axis at around 1500 BC and 800 BC. [55] Although he clearly fails to realise it, such climate changes would, of course, invalidate his main conclusion. If, as he believes, conditions in the Near East were wetter before 800 BC, and even more so before 1500 BC, then how can his uniformitarian arguments, based on subsequent climatic conditions and irrigation techniques, possibly prove that there could have been no civilization in Mesopotamia in 3000 BC? In any case, he seems to have forgotten that, although southern Mesopotamia ceased to be a major power towards the end of the first millennium BC, people continued to live there, and agriculture ...
582. Fractures and Cleavages [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Cities of the Plain, including the story of Sodome and Gomorrah (see below, Chapter 29), treat specifically of the same rift. M. Blanckenhorn placed the age of the Syrian section of the Rift in the early glacial period [7 ]. W. Irwin retrojected the influx of magnesium salts into the Dead Sea, on uniformitarian principles, and arrived at a 50,000 year approximation of its age. Velikovsky gives several reasons for reducing this age drastically, and estimates both the Dead Sea and Jordan Valley have an age of 5000 years. In all the disastrous effects of the biblically described destruction, a sea is not mentioned; yet when the Israelites under ...
583. The Cornell Lecture: Sagan on A Wednesday [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... does not say that the Bible is true; he, in fact, disagrees with much of what is said in the Bible. Nor does Velikovsky call scientists "stuffy" or "unreliable"; to do so would be, among other things, to insult the many scientists who are Velikovsky's supporters. What Velikovsky says is that the uniformitarian theories now accepted by the scientific establishment have an unsound foundation: the reasons for their acceptance are more psychological than logical or evidentiary. And while the Velikovsky theory does have a sweeping and interdisciplinary character, that is hardly enough to account for the enduring and growing interest in the Velikovsky theory. That interest is due to the fact that ...
584. Ethics and the Supernatural [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , very little real control has been exercised over the immense and infinite area of difficulties besetting us. Rather, the change of attitude has come about as a result of changed ideology, weltanschauung, and this has changed because of a fairly long calm condition of the Earth and the skies, and the development of a progressive, free-will, uniformitarian (self-contradictory) philosophy. Perhaps the distinction between traditional sacral and modern secular man is that the former has not forgotten his primeval scenarios, whereas the latter has suppressed them very deeply and become overtly pragmatic. John C. Caldwell wrote a memorandum, not formally published, on the Sahelian Drought of the 1970's. We take leave to ...
585. The Heavenly Host [Books] [de Grazia books]
... restored. At the same time, the most obsessive and schizoid officials and prophets outlast the social sublimation that is occurring, and insist that gods directly are the only authorities, and will not let the process of creating god-heroes go too far. Then, too, a minor phenomenon occurs, which is incorrectly elevated to the major explanation by uniformitarianism and psychic monolithics: pride of ancestry; elite self-elevation, etc.; "credenda et miranda" of ruling groups. Heroes are built into a group's history: "A treason it is to deny them." "We can't eliminate god-heroes without denying the gods." That is, the heroes of a ruling class are made ...
586. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... reign and the events leading up to the Exodus were cosmic, each involving a fall of similar, unusual meteorites, probably of common, exotic origin and (b ) no other body falling on Palestine since the Exodus has shared this origin. Such a pattern would be so odd' that it would be difficult to support from either a uniformitarian or catastrophist perspective. The alternative suggestion that lightning bolts of cosmic intensity created shamir from some of Earth's surface material in situ is probably even more speculative, notwithstanding its better fit with Jewish legends. Ignoring for a moment whether and how massive electrical discharges could transform terrestrial material, the feasibility and intensity of any discharge mediated by a cosmic ...
587. Water [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Let us say, for hypothetical purposes, the three investments of the Earth with water came in one-sixth, three-sixths, and two-sixths of the total. The ocean waters are geologically young. Granted waters are difficult to date, Melvin Cook has shown that the oceans contain under 100,000 years' accumulation of uranium, even granted a uniformitarian riverine run-off curve (which, of course, would mean much less time on the quantavolutionary exponential curve).[7 ] That the basins which hold the water are young, which is yet to be shown, holds significance for the youth of the waters as well. Few evolutionists and quantavolutionists regress in time to a completely water-covered ...
588. Planetary Observations of the T'ang Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... observations seem legitimate. Without astronomical instrumentation, how accurate can the T'ang observations be? If one were trying to plot precise orbits, these observations would be mostly useless. Because of their use of astronomical instruments, later observations from the Middle East are more helpful. Nevertheless, if only by providing a gross check on the canons of planetary uniformitarianism, the T'ang observations are valuable. If planetary positional anomalies did occur during the T'ang Dynasty, wouldn't there be obvious records of worldwide cataclysms ? In general, my research indicates that planetary anomalies seem to be self-correcting and do not necessarily cause systemic chaos. Planets seem to be able to jump around or misbehave without totally wrecking their surroundings ...
589. The Uses of Language [Books] [de Grazia books]
... symptomatic relief from the Love Affair. However, the myth has lost impact steadily from the settling of heaven, and from more philosophical methods of coping with the symptoms. The doctrines of the eternal constancy of the heavens, the practical timelessness of earthly change, and the gradual evolution of humans - sometimes referred to altogether as the ideology of uniformitarianism - have proven a more effective repressor and a partial therapy in the long run. They have made the Love Affair mainly a salacious tale, told in a thousand forms, whose insistent threats and memories linger only vaguely. As for adults, so for babies. So turkey-lurkey turned back, and walked with gander-lander, goose-loose, drake-lake ...
590. Nine Spheres of Venusian Effects [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Ancient pagan accounts of the doings of Moses, often unfavorable, as often agree that plagues and natural destruction were occurring then. Are there exceptions? None that I know of. Only evolutionary modern writers have presumed a benign history covering this period, and I await any contradictory thesis referring to any document or legend. I await the uniformitarian anomaly. VII. The seventh thesis, the Anthroposphere or cultural sphere, says: "Every culture complex in the world changed radically in midsecond-millennium." Here we refer to social organizations, religions, and modes of life. We know that the Egyptian Middle Kingdom underwent the political and social traumas of a takeover by the Hyksos. ...
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