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71 pages of results. 601. Venus and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... or perhaps they were really reflecting upon) historic encounters governing the planets; yet we can observe in their own times the strengthening of three psychological defense mechanisms that made historical reconstruction involving quantavolution difficult: denial and suppression of memory, religious and literary sublimation, and abstract philosophy [114]. Modern cosmogonists, sternly trained in the principles of uniformitarianism and gradualism under a very long whip of time, are loath even to consider large-body departures from presently observed motions. And it is true that the constraints on motions required by strict obedience to such physical laws as the principle of conservation of angular momentum are formidable; immense forces must be invoked from somewhere so as abruptly to alter the ...
602. Towards a new Evolutionary Synthesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , and by Robert Grant, while he was a medical student at Edinburgh. Then later, at Cambridge, he had learned much from his friendship with the botanist, J. S. Henslow. On the long years of the Beagle voyage he read avidly the Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell, who had developed James Hutton's ideas of uniformitarianism and slow changes over very long periods of time. Darwin was particularly excited by the second volume, which describes mutual wars of the different groups of animals and plants in their struggle for food and survival. This point was reinforced on his return from the voyage when, in 1838, he read Thomas Malthus on population [18] ...
603. The Youthful Planet Venus [Articles]
... hypotheses for each of these is failing to see the overall totality of the evidence and what it clearly demonstrates. The same, I strongly suggest, applies to the Moon and Mars. The overall totality of the evidence points undeniably to Venus as a new-born planet which is why supporters of Velikovsky's theory suggest it is the established theories of the uniformitarian scientists that fail to pass this test of demonstrable overall unity for their hypotheses. Each phenomenon must be taken out of context to all or many of the other ones and receive a gerry built, while extremely little pleading is required by the catastrophic theory of Velikovsky. The scientists who refuse to face this overall thrust of the evidence, ...
604. Questions from the Floor [Articles]
... going well, though there is much to be done; progress is being made, it is safe to say that we will see a long series of books by Velikovsky. The six books that he published between 1950 and 1978 are but the tip of the iceberg. Members of the scientific establishment are now enjoying their blissful frolic aboard their uniformitarian Titanic." Question regarding materials on the Saturn and Jupiter questions. Warner Sizemore: "Let me just say this, that KRONOS has manuscripts related to the Saturnian question- not only Velikovsky's, but we have an enormous amount of material to deal with. The Saturn question, the earlier catastrophe, is a subject which will occupy ...
605. The Importance of Outsiders in Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... soon changed tack, devoting his life to science and in particular the study of geology. It should be noted that he published the first two volumes of his Principles of Geology without having done any fieldwork, so not only was he self- taught, he was what we would call an arm-chair scientist'. He developed the theory of uniformitarianism which supplanted the catastrophism then prevalent among scientists. He is considered one of the founders of the discipline of stratigraphy, the study of the layers of the Earth's surface and gave us the names Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene for three of these. William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872) was a civil engineer by profession. He had studied ...
606. Forum: In Defence of the Saturn Theory C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and a misguided belief in the antiquity of the astronomical conceptions in the Timaeus, James' theory is at odds with the historical evidence and thus can hardly serve as a secure foundation for reconstructing the origins of ancient planetary lore. Where does this leave us with respect to Occam's razor? Should it not cut both ways? If no satisfactory uniformitarian explanation can be found to account for Saturn's peculiar mythical characteristics - and James' model is the latest of many to fail in this regard - ought we not at least consider the one model that accounts for the mythological evidence? Even James concedes the theoretical power of the Saturn theory: Theoretically the Saturnist model could explain the strange myths ...
607. Confessions Of A Philosophical Velikovskian [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... smites down the dragon Rahab; and the `crooked serpent' figures in pictures from Egypt, Assyria, Persia, India, and Mexico.26 If Velikovsky's scenario were on the right lines, the existence of such stories would be a matter of course; but they are very surprising, especially considering the similarities between them, on conventional uniformitarian views. And what of the notion that a comet was responsible? Pliny says in so many words that Typhon was a comet. Other ancient authors refer to typhon as a comet, and Servius adds that it was the cause of many evils. Campester was of the opinion that a four-day encounter with it would be enough to destroy ...
608. Transcript of the Evening Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... [is a] question that need to be thought through, not just brushed away. We lived in a careful world, everything was going on [that is, on-going] we came from children [? ] quite plain, nothing happened, no catastrophe, no thing was in the past. We live in the scientific age of uniformitarianism, where anything that is not observed today could not [have] happened also in the past. This is our rule; according to this we study and learn and believe. The second question is- and to this question there is plenty I could say- Venus is hot and Mars gives off heat. Dr. Sagan said ...
609. THE YOUTHFUL ATMOSPHERE OF VENUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... a thermally balanced atmosphere: an ancient planet would have achieved a thermal equilibrium long ago. Hence, the fact that the Venusian atmosphere is not in equilibrium makes the "greenhouse" effect a charade and points to the same conclusion as the other considerations reviewed above. In sum, the evidence we have presented regarding Venus' atmosphere disputes the uniformitarian view that Venus is an ancient member of the solar system; in every instance, however, this evidence is completely en rapport with Velikovsky's view that Venus is a newcomer to the planetary system. References 1. (p . 5 footnote #1 ) Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision (New York, 1950). 2. ...
610. Velikovsky, Fundamentalism and the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Aeon]
... passionately involved in the history of Israel, past and present. In my opinion, however, Velikovsky was motivated not by a desire to deceive, but to believe. If he had a hidden agenda, it was hidden from himself, as well. The final irony is that Velikovsky, who so eloquently showed us how catastrophist fears became uniformitarian certainties in the age of Newton, was part of the Newtonian age himself. When the comforts of geocentric theology collapsed, Newton re-established the shaken tenets of religious faith on the terra firma of science. Velikovsky tried to shore up the shaken chronology of the Bible, a chronology that had been challenged by Egyptologists and by a lack of ...
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