[Yollopoliuhqui]

The following websites are portals into the realm of myth and catastrophe based on the work of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the 1950's best seller "Worlds in Collision".

http://www.aeonjournal.com/
http://www.kronia.com/
http://www.thunderbolts.info/
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovskian/index.htm
http://www.crosswinds.net/~velikovsky/
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/


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[MonroeDNA]

Bahbull alert

[Coyoteman]

"Myths" implies "something not true, fiction, or falsehood." Many of these stories, as the article relates, do have a background.

It may be more accurate to think of them as stories or oral traditions, rather than myths.

[investigateworld]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks StayAt HomeMother for the FReepmail, thanks investigateworld, thanks Lessismore for posting the topic, and Yollopoliuhqui, applpie, and Coyoteman for your contributions to the thread.

Just adding to the GGG catalog, not pinging the whole list. This is a catastrophism topic.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

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[SunkenCiv]

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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor hardcover	Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor

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[SunkenCiv]

(probably a dead link, I'm getting no answer; circa 1994)

The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism
by Trevor Palmer

[T]he scientific issues have been clouded by a supposed association between catastrophism and religion. Rightly or wrongly, it has generally been thought that the catastrophists of the nineteenth century and earlier believed that God was directly involved in determining the history of the Earth... It should go without saying that twentieth century catastrophism, often called neocatastrophism, is founded entirely in science, relying solely on natural forces for its explanations, but was eighteenth and nineteenth century catastrophism completely different? Was it so dominated by supernatural elements that any scientific content it may have claimed was without value? That was certainly the prevailing view for most of the present century. Catastrophists have been condemned for putting dogma before observational science, whereas their rivals, the gradualists (also called uniformitarians) have been praised for taking the opposite stance.

[Fred Nerks]

Very enjoyable article, thanks. Geomyths. Will we believe what the ancients try to tell us or ignore their efforts to describe their experiences?

[SunkenCiv]