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71 pages of results. 591. The Burning of Troy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... goal of calcinology is to establish a frame of analysis that can be transferred from one excavation to another both to interlock events and to serve eventual critiques of received versions of the comparative development (and destruction) of civilizations. I should place in the same category of historical comparative method the application of mythology. Dorothy Vitaliano, pursuing a strict uniformitarian theory, has nonetheless exemplified the necessary marriage between myth and geology that research properly demands; to her, myth serves as a clue to past events, especially when they are extraordinarily forceful [38]. Sometimes, as in the case of Troy, there are direct myths describing events overtaking the site. In other cases, myths ...
592. The Origin Of Craters On The Moon And Large Lunar Boulders [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... other evidence I have presented elsewhere. All the evidence and phenomena on the Moon confirm Velikovsky's analysis of it again and again, without recourse to wild and highly improbable ad hoc paraphernalia. The economy with which the evidence fits his theory is truly staggering. On the other hand, the extravagantly improbable ad hoc concepts that have been employed by uniformitarians are merely stopgap measures to paper over the yawing chasms of their impact theory. One, unfortunately will have to wait for some future generation not wed to the blinders of uniformity who will one day examine the evidence in terms of Velikovsky's concepts. The evidence is there! REFERENCES: (1 )D . E. Gault, J ...
593. On the Circularization of the Orbit of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... hard to understand for anyone except the professional astronomer. By the magnetic-centrifuge process, both energy and angular momentum would be transferred to the cloud, the source being the Sun's rotational energy and angular momentum. The present interplanetary field is too weak for transferring the required energy to the cloud in less than 3500 years. If we adhered to the uniformitarian view that conditions in interplanetary space have remained unchanged for the last few million years, we would have a theoretical problem. Fortunately, we have seen indications that only 2000 years ago the interplanetary magnetic field was much larger than it is now. The former existence and sudden dissipation 25 centuries ago of a strong magnetic field in space has ...
594. New Frontiers on the Stability of the Solar System [Articles]
... spread out, and when it hits the oceans on either side it would probably devastate life for 500 miles inland on either side. There is no doubt that these things happen and yet for over 100 years people have said, no, no, the Earth goes on its own sweet way and any changes are due to slow evolution, uniformitarianism and all that. But it's only now that the catastrophic picture emerges. Material such as has been studied by Clube and Napier is now becoming accepted. David Rohl: Is there any way that an astronomical event of that kind can cause the sorts of things that occurred in biblical stories in the Old Testament- we don't actually have ...
595. Settled Sky and Unsettled Mind [Books] [de Grazia books]
... As the old-fashioned property- owner used to say: "It's my property. I can dispose of it as I please." Many will assert that man would have been better off without the gods. No. This is a materialistic, mechanical view of human origins and human nature, more in keeping with tight suppression of memory and uniformitarian ideology, than with the lessons of catastrophe. Man was created by catastrophes and made to some degree what he is by them. This is a point on which pragmatists, phenomenologists, and idealists may agree. But - it is more doubtful that the species would have become human if it had not humanized the gods. It is ...
596. The SIS, its history and achievements: a personal perspective [Journals] [SIS Review]
... lot in the early days. It's nice to see John Bimson, a speaker at the Glasgow Conference. Geoffrey Gammon produces a nice double, too. He spoke at Glasgow and is moderating here: I moderated at Glasgow and am speaking here. One of Glasgow's memorable personalities was Archie Roy, professor of astronomy at Glasgow University. Staunchly uniformitarian, though unconventional, he leant over backwards trying to accommodate our ideas into what he knew about. An amazing person, he could pick up a piece of chalk in one hand and another piece of chalk in the other and simultaneously drew a perfect circle with each. He said it was the greatest aid to astronomy lectures he'd come ...
597. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 135. G.A . Dorsey, The Pawnee: Mythology, Part I, 1906, pp. 134-137. 136. See S.J . Gould, Toward the Vindication of Punctual Changes', in W.A . Beggren & J.A . Van Couvering (eds.), Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism, Princeton, N. J., 1984, pp. 17-18. 137. C.W . Hunt, Environment of Violence, Calgary, Alberta, 1990, p. 126. 138. R.D . Jarrett & H.E . Malde, Paleodischarge of the Late Pleistocene Bonneville Flood, Snake River, Idaho, ...
598. The Sea Peoples and the Philistines [Articles]
... chronology, about the nature of the Sea Peoples invasion. The records of Ramesses III make out that this invasion was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I hope I have scotched this somewhat, but within the conventional chronology the idea of a massive invasion of Sea Peoples, including Philistines, has been very heavily relied upon by conventional, uniformitarian chronologists and archaeologists as an explanation of the destructions at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Here I feel they are wrong, on grounds of dating, archaeology and literature. There is simply no good evidence of this, and this is something I have written about before, particularly in my paper on the problems of Hittite chronology ...
599. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to precession. Pyramids built before Khufu are skewed west and later ones to the east by amounts in line with the Earth's precession, from which it is deduced that they can now be dated to within 5 years instead of the usual 100, making the Great Pyramid 4,478yrs old, 75yrs older than currently accepted. Circular reasoning here uniformitarian assumptions? Auspicious astronomy AEON Vol. VI:1 , p. 90 Mayan kings deliberately chose their birth dates and accession dates to coincide with astronomical events such as eclipses, Venus positions and Mars-Saturn conjunction. They may not have been the only culture to do so and the requirement for royal events to be accompanied by auspicious astronomical phenomena ...
600. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... and earth", it may be accurate to say that the same events which brought into being man as a separate species also created his peculiar mode of experiencing space and time. Heisenberg himself, in discussing the new light the Indeterminacy Principle shed on Kant's description of a prior' knowledge, speculates along these lines, albeit only in a uniformitarian context: In this reinterpretation the Kantian a priori ' is indirectly connected with experience in so far as it has been formed through the development of the human mind in a very distant past. Following this argument the biologist Lorentz has once compared the a priori. ' concepts with forms of behavior that in animals are called inherited or innate ...
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