< 
> A few choice tidbits from the book, "Mankind in Amnesia," 
> by the late, great Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky: 
< 
"But he (Charles Darwin) saw these animals, 
their bones splintered, heaped in the strangest 
assemblages -- giant sloths and mastodons together 
with birds and mice. 
< 
He had to forget these pictures of disaster in order 
to invent a theory of a peaceful earth unshaken in its 
entirety . . . (but) he could not pass over it in silence 
in 'Origin of Species'. 
< 
"He wrote: 'The extinction of species has been involved 
in the most gratuitous mystery . . . No one can have 
marveled more than I have done at the extinction 
of the species.' 
< 
"Darwin concluded: 'Certainly, no fact in the long history 
of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated 
extermination of its inhabitants'." 
>
>              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
<
"Quoting Eisely, when at the University of Kansas in 1943, 
quoting an observer of an awe-inspiring scene spread all 
over Alaska: 
< 
"... in certain regions of Alaska the bones of these extinct 
animals lie so thickly scattered that there can be no question 
of human handiwork involved. 
< 
"Though man was on the scene of the final perishing, 
his was not, then, the appetite nor the capacity for such 
giant slaughter." 
< 
>           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
< 
"These remains were obviously heaped together in single 
actions of nature . . . Alfred Russel Wallace, who 
simultaneously with Darwin announced the theory 
of natural selection, in puzzlement drew the attention 
of the scientific world to the Siwalik hills, at the foot 
of the Himalayas, their several hundred miles of length 
practically packed with bones of animals . . . 
< 
"It seems impossible to attribute the phenomenon 
to the unaided efforts of man. In this great carnage 
are myriads of animals, limb torn from limb, in great 
heaps, over tens of miles, mixed with splintered trees." 
< 
======================================== 
< 
In 1963, the editors of American Behavioral Scientist 
magazine were convinced of the merits of Dr. Immanuel 
Velikovsky's science -- contained in "Worlds in Collision" 
and "Earth in Upheaval," published in the early 1950s -- 
and were aware of the mushroom cloud of denial that had 
been generated from within the scientific community. 
< 
The editors considered these events to be of major 
importance to the history of science. 
< 
Therefore, they displayed tremendous courage by devoting 
their September 1963 issue to defending Velikovsky. 
< 
It contained three papers dealing with the Velikovsky 
controversy -- by Ralph Juergens, Livio Stecchini and 
publisher Alfred de Grazia, as well as a paper submitted 
by Velikovsky himself. 
< 
Three years later -- in 1966 -- this edition of American 
Behavioral Scientist wound up as a hard-cover book entitled 
"The Velikovsky Affair: The Warfare of Science and Scientism," 
edited by de Grazia and published by University Books Inc., 
New Hyde Park, N.Y. 
< 

>         ========================== 
< 
>             "THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR" 
>                          Foreward 
>                   (By Alfred de Grazia) 
< 
In 1950, a book called Worlds in Collision, by Dr. 
Immanuel Velikovsky, gave rise to a controversy in 
scientific and intellectual circles about scientific 
theories and the sociology of science. 
< 
Dr. Velikovsky's historical and cosmological concepts, 
bolstered by his acknowledged scholarship, constituted 
a formidable assault on certain established theories 
of astronomy, geology and historical biology, and on 
the heroes of those sciences. 
< 
Newton, himself, and Darwin were being challenged, and 
indeed the general orthodoxy of an ordered universe. 
< 
The substance of Velikovsky's ideas is briefly presented 
in the first chapter of this book. 
< 
What must be called the scientific establishment rose in 
arms, not only against the new Velikovsky theories but 
against the man himself. 
< 
Efforts were made to block dissemination of Dr. Velikovsky's 
ideas, and even to punish supporters of his investigations. 
< 

> Universities, scientific societies, publishing houses, 
> the popular press were approached and threatened; social 
> pressures and professional sanctions were invoked 
> to control public opinion. 
< 
There is no doubt that in a totalitarian society, not only 
would Dr. Velikovsky's reputation have been at stake, but 
also his right to pursue his inquiry, and perhaps his own 
personal safety. 
< 
As it was, the "establishment" succeeded in building a wall 
of unfavorable sentiment around him: to thousands of scholars 
the name of Velikovsky bears the taint of fantasy, 
science-fiction and publicity. 
< 
He could not be suppressed entirely. In the next few years 
he published three more books. He carried on a large 
correspondence. And he was helped by friends and by 
a large general public composed of persons outside of the 
establishments of science. 
< 
The probings of spacecraft tended to confirm -- never to disprove -- 
his arguments. 
< 
> Eventually, the venomous aspects of the controversy, 
> the efforts at suppression, the campaign of vilification 
> loomed almost as large, in their consequences to science, 
> as the original issue. 
< 
Social scientists, who had been generally aware of Dr. Velikovsky's 
work, now found themselves in the thick of the conflict. 
The involvement of the social and behavioral sciences in the 
scientific theories of Velikovsky was higher than had been earlier 
appreciated. 
< 
The social sciences are the basis of Velikvsky's work: despite his 
proficiency in the natural sciences, it is by the use of the 
methodology of social science that Velikovsky launched his challenge 
to accepted cosmological theories. 
< 
No one pretends that this method is adequate. New forms of 
interdisciplinary research are needed to wed, for example, the study 
of myth with the study of meteorites. 
< 
Nor does one have to agree that Velikovsky is the greatest technician 
of mythology, even while granting his great conceptual and 
synthesizing powers. 
< 
Whatever the scientific substance, the controversy itself could not 
be avoided or dismissed by behavioral science. 
< 
>The problem of sicence is one of the agitating problems 
> of the twentieth century. The issues are clear: Who determines 
> scientific truth: Who are its high priests, and what is their 
> warrant? How do they establish their canons? What effects 
> do they have on the freedom of inquiry, and on public interest? 
< 
In the end, some judgment must be passed upon the behavior of the 
scientific world and, if adverse, some remedies must be proposed . . .
< 
It is our hope that the publication of these papers in the present 
volume (a revised and enlarged version) will make it less easy for 
Velikovsky's new work to be suppressed, or lightly dismissed. 
< 
We hope, too, that they will help scientists and interested laymen 
everywhere to rehearse the problems and to reform the errors 
of the vast enterprise of science.      -- END OF QUOTE 

========================================= 
<
Ed Conrad 
> http://www.edconrad.com 
< 
================================================= 
< 
> ======================================= 
< 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ManasOldasCoal/Discoveries.jpg 
< 
> ======================================== 
< 
>        THE COVER-UP THAT CAN'T BE COVERED 
>   (Petrified Coal-Age Bones, Teeth and Soft Organs) 
< 
< (A golden rule of geology is that coal is a minimum of 280 
 million years old, dating back to the Carboniferous Period.) 
< 
>  (Many Specimens Found After Web Page Constructed) 
< 
Photos show a petrified human femur embedded in slate 
that was excavated during an open-pit mining operation 
in Pennsylvania's anthracite region: 
< 
>  http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z8femur.jpg 
>  http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/D24x/z7femur.jpg 
< 
> ======================================== 
< 
PETRIFIED HUMAN FINGER AND TOE 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FINGER/FINGERSx.jpg 
< 
Photo during Power Point presentation in Switzerland) 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix2/MVC-006S.JPG 
< 
Two Petrified Human Skulls (one embedded in boulder) 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/skullb.jpg 
<
Handcarved Tool/Weapon Handle (Turned to Anthracite) 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-001S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-002S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-004S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG 
< 
Other Petrified Specimens 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/newtibia.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID\MVC-005S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z5gall.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z9lung.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/MVC-001S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/1tooth.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID/premolar.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID/MVC-013F.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Day/MVC-005S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID\MVC-017S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-010S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-020S.JPG 
< 
>  SOME FAVORABLE SCIENTIFIC TEST RESULTS 
< 
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith1/MVC-008S.JPG 
< 
American Medical Laboratories 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID\MVC-024S.JPG 
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ID\MVC-002S.JPG 
< 
CATscan on petrified premolar 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/graph.gif 
< 
Scanning Electron Microscopy on petrified tibia 
> http://www.edconrad.com/canals/sem.jpg 
< 
Presence of Haversian canals (Photo of tibia ground section) 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/proof1.jpg 
< 
> ========================================== 
< 
>    WHEN SCIENCE MEETS PSEUDOSCIENCE 
< 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/index.html 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/page2.html 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/page3.html 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/page4.html 
> http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/cmon.html 
< 
> ========================================= 
< 
> Ed Conrad 
> http://www.edconrad.com 
< 
> Man as Old as Coal (and conceivably a whole lot older) 
< 
========================================== 
>
<
> ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS
American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and
Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological
Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural
Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical
Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and
Legal Anthropology Review, American Association of Physical
Anthropologists Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center Emory
University American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Assn
for the Advancement of Science American Association of Anatomists
American Anthropological Association American Journal of Physical
Anthropology American Medical Association American Museum
f Natural History American Society for Investigative Pathology
American  Society of  Human Genetics Federation of American Scientists
HMS Beagle Journal of Evolutionary Medicine Scholarly Journals Life
Sciences The Missing Link AJPA Biological Anthropology  General Links
Ancient Life Center: Early Man Anthropology Canadian Association for
Physical Anthropology Fossil Hominids Mankind Quarterly Multi Habitat
Hypothesis of Human Evolution Scientific American American Board of
Forensic Anthropology American Journal of Pathology American Society
for Clinical Pathology American Society of Cytopathology American
Society for Investigative Pathology Annals of Chemical Biochemistry
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association for Molecular
sci.med.pathology sci.anthropology sci.anthropology.paleo
sci.bio.evolution sci.anthropology sci.archaeology.paleo david iain
greig talk.origins