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221 pages of results. 651. The Ellenberger And Internet Debunkers [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... side of the issue at the expense of any opposing views. In spite of this, Rawlins went forward with the article. When I telephoned him to request that I be permitted to respond in his journal to the serious charges being presented, he called me a "suppressor" and said he would not permit me or anyone charged to write a reply in his journal. When I asked how his readers would learn about the other side he said he would inform them where they could write to hear the other side of the matter. This rather settled matters as far as he was concerned. Of course, Ellenberger's obscenities were never exposed to DIO's readers nor is there any ...
652. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... that once more He would kiss us with the kisses of His mouth! O that understanding of the Torah might remain firm in our hearts as before!" Moses answered: "It is no longer possible now, but it will come to pass in the future world, when He will put His law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts." Israel had another reason for regretting the choice of an intermediator between themselves and God. When they heard the second commandment: "Thou shalt have no strange gods beside Me," the evil impulse was torn out from their hearts. But as soon as they requested Moses to intercede for them, the ...
... clean heart, and remove the spirit of jealousy from the midst of you." Like Reuben, so also Simon adjured his sons to beware of unchastity, for this vice is the mother of all evil. It separates man from God, and abandons him to Behar. These were the closing words of his exhortation: "In the writings of Enoch I saw that your sons would be corrupted through unchastity, and they would maltreat the sons of Levi with the sword. But they will not be able to do aught against Levi, for the war he will wage is the war of the Lord, and he will vanquish all your armies. As a small remnant you ...
654. Remembering Velikovsky [Journals] [Aeon]
... when to keep silent. He was a man who, for all his brilliance in communication, clearly had a need to keep corners of his life secret and inviolate. In the second place, Velikovsky is shown to have had a shrewd political sense in calculating at least some aspects of his attraction to both collaborators and the younger generation. Writing to me in 1973, he was writing some years after the publication of Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods?, a breathless, tabloidesque best-seller which, for at least thirty years, had served to discredit the sober discussion of extraterrestrial contact in serious Western academic circles. Velikovsky was already being pilloried as a charlatan, and worse ...
... molecules recombine to form, among other molecules .. .formaldehyde." The basic chemistry for this has been known for a long time. Apparently Sagan's knowledge of chemistry is limited since he does not seem to know the simple chemical fact that "formaldehyde" is an "aldehyde". An analysis of Halley's comet caused Roger Knacke to write in Sky and Telescope, for March 1987, p. 250 that, "The C-H feature at 3.4 microns has smaller bumps superimposed on it, probably because more than one C-H compound is present. Formaldehyde (CH2O) is an interesting possibility for some of the features. Evidently there is some complex organic chemistry going on ...
656. The Sunken Kingdom: The Atlantis Mystery Solved by Peter J. James [Journals] [Aeon]
... review of previous theories surrounding Atlantis' whereabouts, together with a detailed analysis of the primary ancient sources. For this reason alone, The Sunken Kingdom is recommended to all those who are interested in this subject. James is at his best when arguing that Plato's knowledge of astronomy and the other sciences has been vastly underrated, and that his writings cannot be understood apart from his catastrophism. After providing a wealth of evidence in favor of this claim, James writes: "There are scores, possibly hundreds of books on the philosophy of Plato that don't contain even a passing reference to his catastrophic views. Why? The only answer can be that for most of the century catastrophism ...
657. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... have small effects- slightly keener hearing, a new shade of fur." [3 ] This statement implies that beneficial mutations are common when, in fact, they are extremely rare. Most mutations are either neutral or deleterious in nature, a fact of no small importance in judging the "all-sufficiency" of natural selection. Elsewhere Shermer writes that: "No one, and I mean no one, working in the field is debating whether natural selection is the driving force behind evolution." [4 ] This is simply not the case. In addition to Ted Steele's laboratory in Australia, which endorses a form of Neo-Lamarckism, [5 ] there are various scientists working ...
658. Symbols of an Ancient Sky: Slide Presentation & Notes by David Talbott [Journals] [Aeon]
... beard, a protruding tongue, a single tooth, a plow, a spade, a sword, all of which relate to the appearance of the planet and its stream of debris. Told and retold in myth and symbol so ancient and so diffused through veils of time and experience, the echoes of these events have gone generally unrecognized. Writes Talbott: "The evolution of this configuration, I am suggesting, is the history of the ancient gods. And the global patterns of myth, ritual, and symbol have no other reference!" (p . 46.) The model can be tested. As Talbott claims: "It is specific enough to be easily falsified ...
... man's work, the format and atmosphere are light-years away from what the AAAS people are doing. I have in mind, for example, the Library of Living Philosophers series edited by Paul A. Schilpp. That series includes publications of Einstein, on Russell, and on many others. Each such volume includes a long bibliography of the man's writings, and a long preliminary essay by him in the form of an intellectual autobiography. There are a number of critical articles included in such a volume, but the man whose work is at issue is given as much time and space as he needs to reply to each criticism. The entire approach is serious and fair; there is ...
660. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology [Books]
... frequently cited by scientific skeptics as delivering a definitive blow to Velikovsky. And whatever one's opinion on the merits of Velikovsky's Sources, it is to Forrest's credit that in the forty years since publication of Worlds in Collision, his is the only substantial critique of Velikovsky's use of myth. "Despite the scholarly appearance of Velikovsky's work," Forrest writes, "I think the theories put forward in Worlds in Collision are wrong at an elementary and common sense level." (2 ) And what, at an "elementary level," does Forrest object to? "The gist of the objection to it is that one will nowhere find anything like a direct historical reference to catastrophic ...
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