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![]() This is the start of the first chapter of the late Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky's masterpiece, "Worlds in Upheaval," the book that shook the Scientific Establishment to the rafters. No wonder it used every dirty trick in the book to ridicule him. ================== "'WORLDS IN COLLISION" In an immense universe a little globe revolves around a star; it is the third in the row -- Mercury, Venus, Earth -- of the planetary family. It is of a solid core covered over most of its surface with liquid, and it has a gaseous envelope. Living creatures fill the liquid; other living creatures fly in the gas; and still others creep and walk upon the ground on the bottom of the gaseous ocean. Man, a being of erect stature, thinks himself the prince of creation. He felt like this long before he, by his own efforts, came to know how to fly on wings of metal around the globe. He felt godlike long before he could talk to his fellow-man on the other side of the globe. Today he can see the microcosm in a drop and the elements in the stars. He knows the laws governing the living cell with its chromosomes, and the laws governing the macrocosm of the sun, moon, planets and stars. He assumes that gravitation keeps the planetary system together, man and beast on their planet, the sea within its borders. For millions and millions of years, he maintains, the planets have rolled along the same paths, and their moons around them, and man in these eons has arisen from a one-cell infusorium all the long way up to the ladder to his status of Homo sapiens. Is man's knowledge now nearly complete? Are only a few more steps necessary to conquer the universe: to extract the energy of the atom -- since these pages were written this has already been done -- to cure cancer, to control genetics, to communicate with other planets and learn if they have living creatures, too. Here begins Homo ignoramus. He does not know what life is or how it came to be and whether it orginated form inorganic matter. He does not know whether other planets of this sun or of other suns have life on them, and if they have, whether the forms of life there are like those around us, ourselves included. He does not know how this solar system came into being, although he has built up a few hypotheses about it. He knows only that the solar system was constructed billions of years ago. He does not know what this mysterious force of gravitation is that holds him and his fellow man on the other side of the planet with their feet on the ground, although he regards the phenomenon itself as "the law of laws." He does not know what the earth looks like five miles under his feet. He does not know how mountains came into existence or what caused the emergence of the continents, although he builds hypotheses about these, nor does he know from where oil came -- again hypotheses. He does not know why, only a short time ago, a thick glacial sheet pressed upon most of Europe and North America, as he believes it did; nor how palms could grow above the polar circle, nor how it came about that the same fauna fill the inner lakes of the Old and the New World. He does not know where the salt in the sea came from. Although man knows that he has lived on this planet for millions of years, he finds a recorded history of only a few thousand years. And even these few thousand years are not sufficently well known. Why did the Bronze Age preceed the Iron Age even though iron is more widely distributed over the world and its manufacture is simpler than that of the alloy of copper and tin? By what mechanical means were structures of immense blocks built on the high mountains of the Andes? What caused the legend of the Flood to orginate in all the countries of the world? Is there any adequate meaning to the term "antediluvian"? From what experiences grew the eschatological pictures of the end of the world? In this work, of which the present book is the first part, some of these questions will be answered, but only at the cost of giving up certain notions now regarded as sacred laws in science -- the millions of years of the present constitution of the solar system and the harminous revolution of the earth -- with all their implications as regards the theory of evolution. ====================================== PETRIFIED BONES, TEETH AND SOFT ORGANS DISCOVERED BETWEEN ANTHRACITE VEINS Petrified human finger (with finger nail) AND petrified human toe (with toe nail): http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Au29/MVC-016S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z8femur.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z5gall.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/newtibia.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/skullb.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z9lung.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/MVC-001S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix5/MVC-002S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Bones/MVC-006S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/1tooth.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-013F.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-012F.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Day/MVC-005S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-001S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-010S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-020S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/SCORPIONS/MVC-039S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG Ed Conrad http://www.edconrad.com Man as Old as Coal |
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Ed Conrad wrote:
This is the start of the first chapter of the late Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky's masterpiece, "Worlds in Upheaval," the book that shook the Scientific Establishment to the rafters. No wonder it used every dirty trick in the book to ridicule him. A masterpiece of pseudoscience, still read and believed by na=EFve people with no training in science. His writings on astronomy and such are the equivalent of L Ron Hubbards writings on his pseudoscientific "Dianetics", supposedly a new and complete science of mental health. --=20 Stefano |
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"Stefano MAC:GREGOR" wrote in message
ups.com... Ed Conrad wrote: This is the start of the first chapter of the late Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky's masterpiece, "Worlds in Upheaval," the book that shook the Scientific Establishment to the rafters. No wonder it used every dirty trick in the book to ridicule him. A masterpiece of pseudoscience, still read and believed by naïve people with no training in science. His writings on astronomy and such are the equivalent of L Ron Hubbards writings on his pseudoscientific "Dianetics", supposedly a new and complete science of mental health. -- Stefano I thought it was, "Worlds in Collision" and debunked many years ago... http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/vdtopten.html Bill "But they still keep a'rollin' along" |
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Billzz wrote:
I thought it was, "Worlds in Collision" and debunked many years ago. The nut wrote quite a few books (but not as many as Hubbard), all named "something in something". All just as useless. -- Stefano |
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Collusion.
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