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... than terrestrial calderas, but very few appear to be associated with significant volcanic constructs." The craters on Io do not resemble volcanoes; they look like craters on the Moon, Mars and Mercury. Scientists who believe in the impact theory, like Sagan, can see the evidence before their eyes, but because they are imbued with a uniformitarian philosophy they refuse to believe that the evidence from lo should be applied to other bodies in the solar system. Thus they deny what appears obvious. In the debate with Velikovsky, Sagan several times states that science had proven conclusively certain phenomena such as, "the Moon bears eloquent testimony to the fact that there have been abundant collisions ...
612. Thoth Vol II, No. 9: May 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a computer fiddling with some unrealistic model. Then we have the evidence amassed by the Saturnists for prehistoric interplanetary discharges which reportedly took on the plasmoid shape, only recently rediscovered in plasma labs. Not only that, but a marked change in appearance of Mars ensued from one such strike. Back to Baker again: "Concepts as basic as uniformitarianism must be seriously questioned. .. .The relatively recent discovery of alien landscapes poses many disturbing questions for a science grown complacent with the study of the familiar." Tharsis Tholus is classified as a Martian volcano, 150 kilometres across and 8 kilometres high. It is also dubbed a geological puzzle because it requires explosive and effusive eruption ...
613. The Celestial Dynamics of "Worlds in Collision" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ancient observations or on the accuracy of his interpretation of the data, but I am impressed with the observations he has collected - he's got ancient Chinese, ancient Hindu, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Arab observations, and two more speculative Egyptian observations from Karnak - which show a striking departure in the obliquity of the Earth's axis of rotation from the uniformitarian assumptions. Simplified version of Dodwell's chart showing how observed values for the obliquity of the ecliptic (solid line) appear to diverge from theoretical values determined according to the accepted formula devised by Newcomb (broken line), suggesting recovery from a discontinuity ca. 2300 BC. Q: Professor Roy spoke yesterday of the possibility of using Venus ...
614. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... far out from the sun (ones close up have been melted by now), ANY comet that swings into the inner solar system has a very eccentric elliptical orbit. [Amy Acheson ]: First of all, I don't agree with his statement that ALL comets start pretty far out from the sun. This is a deduction from the uniformitarian assumption that all the bodies in the solar system were formed 4 billion years ago. If they were all formed way back then, and they continue to disrupt at the rate we've observed them disrupting in the past few centuries, then all the close up comets would have disrupted by now. [Note that I'm describing a similar phenomenon ...
615. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... drift. Prof.Billy Glass once told the author that what convinced him of continental drift was paleomagnetic measurements. These generally are held to correlate positively bands of rock, moving away from the central Atlantic ridge, with time; the older rocks are farther from the ridge. Not only do the magnetic measurements depend upon geochronometry but also upon uniformitarianism, because it is assumed that the lava flood extending from the ridge has been of the same volume-to-time ratio for many millions of years. More on this last point will be brought forward later. To conclude these pages on magnetic and geographical tilts, we can state our position: the geographical figure of the rotating Earth can tilt or ...
616. Conclusion (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... there can be no question that it may enter the the solar system every time it approaches the Sun. A body one-tenth the mass Sun would wreck havoc among the planetary bodies. There is little question that its gravitational influence would cause the planets to establish new orbits. Therefore, this theory itself points to an unstable solar system. The uniformitarian theory can only be maintained by divorcing the Earth from the heavens and the abundant evidence of solar system catastrophes. The house that Velikovsky built in 1950 is becoming the modern edifice of science. His contribution to this house should not be buried by propaganda masquerading as science. But Velikovsky's theory is not so easily dismissed in view of all ...
617. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... for Interdisciplinary Studies since its foundation in 1974. In his book, CONTROVERSY - CATASTROPHISM AND EVOLUTION: THE ONGOING DEBATE, Trevor outlines a new history of evolutionary theory, natural selection and adaptation, all of which appear to be founded more on 19th century natural theology rather than pure science. He shows how and why Lyell's religious belief in uniformitarian gradualism supplanted catastrophism by the middle of the 19th century and how, during the last 20 years, a prolonged scientific revolution has once again brought catastrophism to the forefront of the natural sciences. Darwinian natural selection, long thought to hold all keys to evolution, is critically reappraised and revised in view of new astronomical, geological and palaeontological ...
618. Thoth Vol I, No. 3: February 18, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... 1990 in which he reviews in detail dozens of mainstream attempts to explain away the anomaly, and satisfied me (as a professional mathematician who checked his differential equations) that they have failed, and that the present atmosphere could have been produced in at most 2 million years. (This of course is 2,500 TIMES shorter than the uniformitarian age of the earth.) He quotes mainstream experts as admitting that "this helium escape problem will not go away, and it is unsolved." Vardiman has also written an impressive-looking paper on the Ice Core dating method (which I have not studied myself). At the recent Portland conference, on "Planetary Violence in Human ...
619. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream [Journals] [Kronos]
... taken into account in any criticism of Shakespeare's plays. It is not at all surprising that Shakespeare's contemporaries saw the changes in the climate and natural environment of their age in cataclysmic, apocalyptic terms and that this perception found its way in to the literature of the age's greatest master, William Shakespeare.(17) The modern geological viewpoint is uniformitarian, which means it sees the history of the Earth as one of placid and slow change. This makes us dismiss the cataclysmic imagery in Shakespeare . . not as real, actual physical experiences that meant something tangible to the Elizabethan audience, but as artistic constructs, divorced from life, and bludgeoned into the services of "overriding theme ...
620. Five Years (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... to Courville, Patten, and their immediate followers, there would be a few others such as James E. Strickling, Herbert C. Sorenson and Thomas G. Barnes who published their ideas in both Velikovskian and Creationist journals, but for the most part the only ideas and experiences held in common by the two camps were their antagonism toward uniformitarian assumptions and their struggle against the efforts made by orthodox science to discredit and suppress their teachings. As Dorothy Nelkin summed up the establishment attitude, the Creationists were "part of the romantic resistance to science that is reflected in the popularity of astrology, mystical cults and the imaginary cosmologies of Immanuel Velikovsky and Erich von Daniken." ( ...
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