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71 pages of results. 621. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Journals] [Kronos]
... earth", it may be accurate to say that the same events which brought man into being 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 priori" 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 behaviour that in animals are called "inherited ...
622. Fomenko and English History [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in supposedly continuous records, including the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. However, the simplest explanation would be that there were periods when nothing happened that seemed worth writing down for posterity, or that material has been lost. Perhaps more significant anomalies are those where astronomical events such as eclipses are recorded which, according to back-calculations from the present day, using uniformitarian assumptions, would not have occurred at the times stated. Yet such incidents hardly seem to necessitate a chronological revision of several hundred years, given the mass of supporting evidence for the traditional scheme and the major anomalies present in the scheme of the Russian scholars (such as sons ruling up to 100 years before their supposed fathers). ...
623. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times -- Part II [Journals] [Kronos]
... 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.(37) Sometimes, as in the case of Troy, there are direct myths describing events overtaking the site. In other cases, myths ...
624. The Ellenberger And Internet Debunkers [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Nobel address that if Velikovskianism is able to endure a long period of vilification, misrepresentation, and denial, it may in the future prevail. We are certainly still in the throes of the Velikovsky Affair. For fifty years scientists, academics and science writers have each attempted to annihilate the name and work of Immanuel Velikovsky because of their great uniformitarian biases. Like all the rest this new generation of destroyers will continue their work of devastation ad nauseam. As Velikovsky wrote a quarter of a century ago: "Those who prefer name calling to argument, wit to deliberation, or those who point a triumphant finger at some detail that they misinterpret, yet claim that my entire work ...
625. On Models and Scenarios [Journals] [Aeon]
... on Mars, a planet that cannot retain water. In fact one is amazed at how rarely astronomers consider the possibility of ice arriving from space, flowing in torrents over the surface, then boiling off. Nor can one fail to notice the apparently freshly-strewn debris littering the Martian surface, the sharp, well-defined edges of the rocks defying all uniformitarian predictions. On a planet with hundred mile an hour dust storms, there is no possibility that these rocks could have been preserved in this fashion over the claimed billion-year scenarios of Martian evolution. Additionally, the radical differentiation of Mars' northern and southern hemispheres, more than a minor anomaly for conventional theory, offers the very telltale effect ...
626. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... before the dreaded flyby, Mars appeared to be passing through first the constellations Orion and shortly thereafter, through the Pleiades. The 1990's is an age wherein we have suffered through five consecutive generations, 150+ years of gradualism as the central dogma in historical geology. Sometimes it is called "Lyellianism" after Charles Lyell, and sometimes "uniformitarianism". If our scenario of planetary catastrophism is correct, gradualism, still the central dogma in interpreting historical geology, is nonsense. The major features of the physical geography of our planet were sculpted by many, repeating, close Mars flybys. One of the greatest questions ever asked a person, or a scholar, or a group ...
627. Sean Mewhinney's Missing Subglacial Topography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... left out every one of the points I raised with respect to the subglacial topography of Greenland and Antarctica. Why if they were the citations he read in Mallery and Hapgood did he do that? Mewhinney's method is to ignore those most basic topographic aspects of the evidence. Mewhinney discussed and talked about other aspects of the evidence from a strict uniformitarian viewpoint. If there are mountains that fit the Greenland map, Mewhinney discusses mountains missing from the part of that map in Scandinavian. But a catastrophe as large as Velikovsky suggested would cause some mountains to rise higher while others in other places would sink or disappear. If there are islands on the Zeno map that are presently missing, ...
628. Benoît De Maillet (1656-1738): A Forerunner of the Theory of the Desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea [Journals] [SIS Review]
... History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis', Nature, 267, 1977, pp. 399-403. 10. Mörner, N. A., Low sea levels, droughts, and mammalian extinctions', in: W. A. Berggren & J. A. van Couvering (eds.): Catastrophes and Earth History. The New Uniformitarianism, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1984, pp. 387-393. 11. Mörner, N. A., Eustasy, geoid changes, and multiple geophysical interactions', in: W. A. Berggren & J.A . van Couvering (eds.), op. cit.[10], pp. 395-415 ...
629. The Problem of the Frozen Mammoths [Journals] [Kronos]
... frozen specimens and the date (or dates) of their extermination and subsequent entombment in frozen muck. At this point, it would be prudent to keep Professor Lynn Rose's admonition in mind, namely that we cannot, at present, be sure that there has been no "pre-publication discarding" of mammoth test results that were "incompatible with uniformitarianism."(67) Rose also warned that "radiocarbon dating of events prior to twenty-seven centuries ago [cannot] be applied to Velikovsky without begging the very questions at issue."(68) I am well aware of the implications. Velikovsky, for instance, has stated that during the catastrophes of the eighth/seventh centuries ...
630. The Jewish Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... the world of physics" is dominated by "a law of equilibrium," so "the world of moral relations" ought to be dominated by "the the law of justice;" disruption of either law would lead inevitably to a cataclysm. (28) But in the 1940's, when he came to abandon the balanced gradualism of uniformitarianism, he no longer ascribed the great events that he chronicled to any human causes: they were thoroughly natural events that were independent of ethical considerations. Rather than being caused by human failings, social curses such as anti-Semitism, dispersals, wars, and so on, even compulsive ritualism and mental illness, were at least in part the ...
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