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71 pages of results. 631. The Organization of the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... to two more solar issues surrounding our shrinking Sun. Part I has been a negative approach, and has concerned the warts on fiat creationism and the blemishes on the nebular hypothesis. Part II will present a capture model- a positive approach- with such supporting evidence as we can marshall, and with such insights as we have ascertained. Uniformitarians and fiat creationists have had ample time, over two centuries, to develop a credible cosmology. Planetary catastrophists now have their turn. Such a golden opportunity must not be allowed to slip through our hands. References 1. Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision. (New York, 1950). 2. Velikovsky occasionally included Mercury among ...
... about the planet's equator. Such a system of rings once surrounded the earth, and by their successive collapse produced great changes during the geologic period. Their remnants, lingering in the skies, even to the time of Christ, became the source of all ancient mythologies. There can be no valid objection to such a claim, since the uniformitarian principle is fully conceded. It would seem highly improbable that our oceans, formed in the fires of the molten planet and sent to the terrestrial skies, could fail to enter into ring formation. Such a ring system would continue to revolve about the earth as the ages of cooling and vapor condensation and segregation went on. The Saturnian ...
633. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Sirius rose heliacally; in 238 BC this event occurred on 1 Payni - a shift of 95 days in the Egyptian calendar in 377 years, again at the rate of ¼ day a year. This correlation, Fermor argues, can be shown to hold good as far back as 521 BC, before which things become uncertain. Relying on uniformitarian assumptions, Egyptologists have retrocalculated dates of the heliacal rising of Sirius into the third millennium BC. On this basis Sothic dates have been established for the 7th year of Sesostris III (1872 BC), the 9th year of Amenhotep I (1537 BC) and an undated year of Thutmose III (in the 15th century), and ...
634. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... was celebrated in ancient ritual. (67) Like Nergal, Gilgamesh was invoked as judge of the underworld in later omen texts. (68) Indeed one late text identifies the two figures: "Gilgamesh is Nergal, who resides in the underworld." (69) The authors of Hamlet's Mill, tied as they were to a uniformitarian understanding of the ancients' astronomical beliefs, could add nothing further to the solution of the astral identity of Gilgamesh. The crucial pieces of the puzzle- the identification of Gilgamesh and Nergal, Huwawa's identification with Saturn, and the relationship of the planet Saturn to the celestial pole- were all known to these distinguished scholars, yet they ...
... at the equator.7 Professor Oswald Heer's calculations would possibly modify Keerl's estimate to a slight degree, but only enough to make the circumpolar climate of that far-off age a little more Edenic than is that of the hottest portions of our present earth.8 Sir Charles Lyell, who in the discussion of this subject is characteristically cautious and "uniformitarian," does not hesitate to say, " The result, then, of our examination, in this and in the preceding chapter, of the organic and inorganic evidence as to the state of the climate of former geological periods is in favor of the opinion that the heat was generally in excess of what it now is. In ...
636. Introduction - Ages in Chaos? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the New Year in a Sothic calendar. Regardless of whether a Sothic calendar was ever employed, the civil calendar known to have been used by the Egyptians had no leap year, so the civil New Year would slip through the seasons and only coincided with the heliacal rising of Sirius at intervals of 1460 years (on the basis of uniformitarian assumptions). In the 3rd century AD, Censorinus wrote that the start of the civil New Year had coincided with the heliacal rising of Sirius in AD 139; with that as a marker, it was believed that it would also have happened in 1321 BC and 2781 BC [10]. There is no evidence from Egypt that ...
637. Dr Immanuel Velikovsky TRIBUTES [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . In his monumental life's work Dr Velikovsky has left us the insight that what has hitherto been dismissed by science as myth - destruction of the world by deities in material form and battles among these same deities within the solar system - actually corresponds to the truth; and that what has up to now been presented as the truth - the uniformitarian theory of evolution, or what we might call the Newtonian/Darwinian/Marxian world-view - is no more than a myth. - Christoph Marx, in the Baster Zeitung, 31st December 1979. Marvin A. Luckerman EXECUTIVE EDITOR, CATASTROPHISM AND ANCIENT HISTORY (L .A .) In 1970, I picked up a copy of ...
638. Controversy: Catastrophism and Evolution, The Ongoing Debate, by Trevor Palmer (Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... That is the argument that Palmer makes in his exciting and interesting book, which I commend to all open-minded readers. Richard Huggett References 1. Huggett, R.J ., Catastrophism: Asteroids, Comets, and Other Dynamic Events in Earth History, Verso, London, 1997. 2. Baker, V.R . Catastrophism and uniformitarianism: logical roots and current relevance in geology', in M. M. Grady, R. Hutchinson, G.J .H . McCall & D.A . Rothery (eds), Meteorites: Flux with Time and Impact Effects, Geological Society Special Publication 140, The Geological Society, London, 1998, pp. ...
639. The Foibles of Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the book was published privately in India. Its author is in charge of its commercialization. As a reader of KRONOS, you are no doubt aware that we are not averse to presenting a critical approach to Velikovsky and that we will entertain responsible alternative, and even opposing, views. Given our interest in developing a Velikovsky-based catastrophist alternative to uniformitarianism, we would be more than anxious to inform our readers of new, fruitful sources of information. The book in question leaves too much to be desired to merit, in our opinion, serious attention. If your curiosity gets the better of you, so be it. CAVEAT EMPTOR. Deg called Franklin, received authorization to use ...
640. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... was ridiculed for giving them credence. But today "collisions and catastrophism" --the same critic speaking-"are part and parcel of modern astronomy." The same is true of the evolutionary sciences of biology and paleontology, which emerged historically in the nineteenth century by vanquishing their catastrophist adversaries; they still bear the scars of that debate. The uniformitarian or gradualist doctrine as Lyell established it in geology (for subsequent adoption by Darwin) held that no force could be invoked as an effective cause that could not- like erosion, sedimentation, and volcanic activity- be seen at work today. But this was a circular and self-confirming argument; if a unique event had in fact occurred, the ...
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