DOCSLIB.ORG

Voices of the Rocks

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Voices of the Rocks Acknowledgments MANY PEOPLE HAVE INFLUENCED AND ENCOURAGED ME OVER THE YEARS. I was fortunate to attend George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) as an undergraduate student and Yale University as a graduate student; at both of these institutions I was exposed to many fine faculty members, staff, and students who helped shape my thinking and interests. Since 1984 I have been a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies, Boston University. The administration, faculty, staff, and students at the College have always been supportive of my studies, and I continually find the interdisciplinary interactions with my colleagues there refreshing and exhilarating. Dr. Brendan Gilbane, Dean of the College, has always been encouraging toward my endeavors, lending advice and support, as did the late Dr. Charles P. Fogg, former chairman of the Division of Science at the College of General Studies. My research concerning the age of the Great Sphinx would not have been possible without the help and cooperation of many individuals and organizations. In particular, I thank Drs. Mohamed I. Bakr, Ali Hassan, Zahi Hawass, Elsayed Hegazy, and Abdul-Fattah El-Sabbahy (all of the former Egyptian Antiquities Organization) for permission to pursue geological and geophysical studies on the Giza Plateau. Ahmed Nour-el-Din was extremely helpful during my March 1993 trip to Egypt, as was Nehad Gamal. 1 thank Drs. Gaber Barakat, L. Abdel-Khalek, M. M. El Aref, and Eglal Refai (all of the Faculty of Science, Cairo Universify) for their interest, advice, and help. Dr. Thomas L. Dobecki (formerly of McBride- Ratcliff and Associates, Houston) provided invaluable assistance with the geophysical studies on the Giza Plateau. The staff at Geosignal, Inc. (Houston), contributed their talents in processing the high-resolution seismic reflection data. Dr. Frank Ward of the American Embassy in Cairo also helped me immensely, giving freely of his time and expertise. Dr. Hanny M. El Zeini provided needed encouragement early in the Sphinx project. I also extend thanks to Drs. Lambert T. Dolphin (formerly of Stanford Research Institute) and Mark Lehner (University of Chicago) for helpful discussions, especially during the early stages of this project, and to Drs. James J. Hurtak and Robert G. McKinney for helpful advice and discussion more generally. Dr. Robert Eddy (formerly of the College of Basic Studies, renamed the College of General Studies in September 1992, of Boston University) first introduced me to John Anthony West, and it was as a result of discussions with West that I became interested in the problem of the age of the Sphinx. Thus, West is responsible for initiating this aspect of my research, and he and Boris Said deserve credit for their hard work relative to the logistics of the Sphinx project. In particular, Boris undertook most of the hammer- slinging during the April 1991 seismic studies (I will ignore, for the moment, his suggestion that the Sphinx is nothing but a fancy hood ornament on a giant sports car buried under the sand). Here I express my thanks to both West and Said for their continuing help and encouragement. It was through the generosity of Yasuo Watanabe (Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing [MDM], Inc., Tokyo) that I was able to visit Yona- guni Island and explore the Yonaguni Monument on 23-24 September 1997. I sincerely thank him for his hospitality and patronage. Graham Hancock was instrumental in arranging the trip to Yonaguni, and he and his wife, Santha Faiia, joined me there to dive on the monument. John Anthony West accompanied me to Yonaguni, participated in the scuba diving, and engaged me in many deep discussions (as he always does) concerning the Yonaguni Monument and related matters. Shun Daichi (Tokyo correspondent of New Perspectives Quarterly) also joined us in diving, and provided me with various reference materials on the Yonaguni Monument and help in translating. Kihachiro Ar a take, who actually discovered the Yonaguni Monument, was our guide for the dives, and dive masters Hiroshi-Kubota and Yoshimi Matsumura provided us with invaluable assistance, as did Megumi Kondo (MDM), Akiko Ito (MDM), Ken Yamada (Ortho Development Corporation, Utah), Dale Kimsey (Ortho), and Steve Hubbard (Ortho). Dr. Michael Pill and Linda Moulton Howe provided me with copies of references from the Japanese Super Mystery Magazine Mu. I returned to Japan in late July and early August 1998 to further study the Yonaguni Monument and related structures as a member of the Team Atlantis multidisciplinary underwater research team and documentary film project. I thank Michael Arbuthnot for organizing this effort and inviting me to participate. Boris Said, producer for Team Atlantis, once again was immensely helpful in making sure that everything worked out. The project would have been impossible without the assistance of Iris DeMauro, who gave freely of her time and energy throughout the expedition and allowed us to stay at her family's beach house in Okinawa during the latter half of the trip. Matthew Sapero, webmaster for the Internet site www.teamatlantis.com, engaged me in much stimulating discussion during the trip and helped me with all things related to computers (including the sending and receiving of E-mail and files so that I could continue working on this book even while in Japan). Dr. J. J. Hurtak and Dr. John T. Dorwin also participated in this trip; sharing freely of their knowledge and opinions, they gave me much food for thought. Also in Japan with the Team Adantis 1998 expedition were Janet Arbuthnot, Christopher DeFelice, Sarah Kingston (who provided invaluable assistance to me underwater), Peter McDougall, Vince Pace, D. J. Roller, and Sandy Wright. I thank them all for their participation. In Japan we were assisted by many people; in particular I would like to single out Kihachiro Aratake (again, as in 1997, he was invaluable in arranging the diving in Yonaguni), Atsushi Mori (who helped us in many ways), and Chie Mikami of Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (who helped us locate an underwater site in the Chatan area of Okinawa). Finally, I extend heartfelt thanks to Dr. Masaaki Kimura for his hospitality. Dr. Kimura met with us numerous times during our stay and explained in detail his ideas regarding the Yonaguni Monument and similar structures. I greatly appreciate his years of research. Innumerable other persons have taken an interest in my research more generally, and have helped out in various ways. Unfortunately, it would be virtually impossible to list everyone I have had contact with concerning my research, but I would like to acknowledge the help, support, and interest of a few more people in particular, including: Alessandro Abdo, Sean Adair, Alicia Alexander, Bodhi Annan, Millard Baublitz Jr., Robbin Beauchamp (who carpooled with me to Boston University during the height of the Sphinx controversy, and heard more than she probably cared to about the Sphinx), Paul Bierman, David P. Billington Jr., Peter E. Busher, Sita Chaney, John Cheshire, Molly Cheshire, Rita Corriel, Bill and Carol Cote, Barbara Crane, Anh Crutcher, Nelson Dale, Caroline Davies, William E. Davis, Kate Dickie, Lloyd Dickie, Frank Domingo, Michael Eldredge, Dennis C. Forbes, Tim Friend, Jean A. Garrison, Alison and Gilbert Gjersvik, Linda Goldstein, Diane Graszik, Jim Green, Terence Guardino, Eileen P. Guriy, Foxy Gwyne, Samuel Hammer, Khadija S. Hammond, Marta J. Hersek, John Hipsley, Sandy and Chuck Houghton, Natalia Ignatieff, Nicholas Ignatieff, Jorjana Kellaway, Michael G. Kort, Devendra Lal, Mary Lomando, Nancy Long, Michael G. Mahon, Michele Matthews, John E. Miller, Mohammed Nazmy, Richard W. Noone (who pushed me hard to write this book and supplied me with various useful leads and reference materials), T. C. Onstott, Robert Oresick, Matthew A. Parfitt, Marshall Payn, Cheryl Poppaw, Andris and Margaret Priede, Peyton E. Richter, Paul William Roberts, Joseph Schor, Tamer Shawsky, Diana Shields, C. Simonds, Lydia Smithers, David Solomon, Sally Sommers Smith, Richard Speir, Samuel Stern, Gigi Van Deckter, Robert M. Watts, Celesta West, Joanne Wright, and Stan Zippan. I apologize to anyone I have inadvertently missed. Finally, I must acknowledge the support that my immediate family has provided as I have pursued my studies (which have sometimes entailed my absence from home for weeks at a time). My wife, Cynthia Pettit Schoch, and my two sons, Nicholas Robert Schoch and Edward Robert Schoch, have always been there when I needed them. Additionally, my parents, Milton and Alicia Schoch; my sister, Marguerita C. Schoch; my late grandmother, Adriana M. Goetz; and my parents-in- law, Robert and Anne Pettit, have always been supportive of all my endeavors. This book could not have been written without the talent, energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm of my coauthor, Robert Aquinas McNally. I could not have asked for a finer collaborator. I am deeply indebted to him for all his help. Robert and I also benefited from the excellent work of our two fine literary agents, Sarah Jane Freymann and Judith Riven, who combine a love of good books with a sharp sense of business. From first idea to final production, this book benefited gready from the good help of the people at Harmony Books: namely, Laura Wood, Patricia Gift, Kristen Wolfe, Brian Belfiglio, Ari Gersen, and David Wade Smith. Of course, all matters of fact and interpretation expressed in this book are solely my responsibility. If there are mistakes, they're mine. Robert M. Schoch College of General Studies Boston University August 1998 A Personal Note THIS BOOK REPRESENTS A PERSONAL INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY. I WAS RAISED a uniformitarian, but through the course of my research I have come to doubt the dogmatism that seems to be central to so much of what currendy passes for science. Yet I adamantly remain a scientist committed to the scientific method.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Welsh Triangle 35 Charles J Hall
    A BRAND NEW MAGAZINE ON UFOLOGY & ALTERNATIVE THINKING TOP 10 UFOLOGY MOMENTS Lazar, Arnold & Rendlesham ISSUE #1 NOV/DEC 2017 NICK POPE THE From civil servant to the WELSH MoD’s UFO investigator TO THE STARS TRIANGLE Rockstar Tom Delonge Celebrating the 40th is shaping our future Anniversary of the Pembrokeshire sightings DYATLOV PASS SNOW WHITE The mystery deaths of Does the beloved princess nine Russian hikers in 1959 have Egyptian origins? THE PIRI REIS MAP ENIGMA Could this medieval map really show an ice-free Antarctica? MICHAEL CREMO Why human origins may go back further than we thought S-4 DIGITAL PRESS Plus more great interviews and features inside! EDITOR’S LETTER WELCOME! “Something inside me has always been there… - then I was awake, and I need help.” he above quote was featured feeling your IQ drop in front of the in the trailer for the upcoming television and smartphone watching TStar Wars: The Last Jedi, mind numbing talk shows and the which finds our hero Rey searching endless plague of vacuous ‘reality’ for guidance in helping her make celebrities. And that’s what the sense of her recent ‘awakening’. title itself refers to, the dark hidden The line stuck in our minds as we corners of the subconscious that were compiling this very first issue recognises there is a vast amount of Shadows Of Your Mind magazine, of information hidden just out of and it seemed pretty apt as interest view. Our hope is that Shadows… in what were previously fringe topics will act as the catalyst that fires up is on the rise.
    [Show full text]
  • Mary Heaton Vorse Papers
    THE MARY HEATON VORSE COLLECTION 156 Boxes 1 Oversize Box 12 microfilm reels Processed: 1968 Accession Number 190 By: BF The papers of Mary Heaton Vorse were deposited with the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs in December, 1966 by her children Heaton Vorse, Mary Ellen Boyden, and Joel O'Brien. The collection covers the period from 1841 to 1966. THE MARY HEATON VORSE COLLECTION Contents BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH INDEX TO SUBJECTS SERIES DESCRIPTIONS and INVENTORIES I. Manuscripts 45 Boxes (1-45) pp 1-36 - Books - Articles and Stories - Other Writings - Notes - Miscellaneous - Stories Written and Sold - Other Authors II. Correspondence 31 Boxes (46-76) pp 37-43 - Index to Correspondents - Correspondence, 1841-1966 III. Daily Notes 17 Boxes (77-93) pp 44-45 - Daily Summaries 1918-1965 - Yearly Summaries ca. 1903-1965 - Daily Notes 1917-1965 IV. General Information Files 39 Boxes (94-132) pp 46-61 V. Clippings ca. 1892-1963 12 Boxes (133-144) pp 62-65 - Alphabetical - Chronological - Miscellaneous VI. Personal Papers 10 Boxes (145-154) pp 66-68 - Address and Appointment Books - Legal Papers - Financial Papers - Miscellaneous Notes - Memorabilia - Family Papers - Biographical Material - Sketches and Drawings - Miscellaneous VII. Oversize p. 69 VIII. Material received from the State Historical 2 Boxes (155-156 p. 70 Society of Wisconsin concerning strikes in Gastonia and Marion, N.C. and Elizabethon, Tennessee, 1928-1930. Copies: Some collection content in series 2, 3, 4, and 6 (boxes 63-82, 84-107, 114, 116, 117, 128, 130, 145, 146, 150, 151, 153, and 154) (1918-1966, undated) is available on 12 reels of microfilm: correspondence, journal notes, general information files, and personal papers.
    [Show full text]
  • Was Antarctica Mapped by the Ancients?
    Was Antarctica Mapped by the Ancients? Suggestions that Antarctica was mapped in ancient times by an unknown civilization are speculative. Evidence said to support ancient mapping has mundane explanations. David C. Jolly VERY SO OFTEN, it is suggested that Antarctica was mapped in very ancient times by an unknown civilization. The first antarctic Elandfall is generally considered to have been in 1820, and actual mapping did not occur until later. However, many sixteenth-century maps show a continent at the present location of Antarctica (Figures 1 and 2). To some eyes these depictions resembled the present shape of that continent minus the shelves of ice along its coast. This would imply that the mapping was done either at a time when the ice was much reduced, or perhaps through the ice using sophisticated scientific equipment. These depictions began to disappear from maps during the seventeenth century, and the South Pole region was usually left completely blank until the nineteenth century. The major advocate of ancient mapping was the late Charles Hapgood.1 Later writers of the von Daniken-Berlitz school have suggested that this mapping was done by space aliens.2' Speculations about ancient mapping of Antarctica were given a boost in 1984 by an article in the New York Times that approvingly described a work that had just been published by John Weihaupt,4 5 a geologist at the University of Colorado at Denver. He had concluded that modern geophysical evidence shows that the coastline of Antarctica several thousand years ago would have resembled maps of Antarctica printed during the sixteenth century.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Paper Revised 2/19/2015 the Letter Below to Professor Bryan Sykes
    Paper revised 2/19/2015 The letter below to Professor Bryan Sykes was never acknowledged. Information on Akhenaten and the Exodus is below. It seems that Akhenaten had a second career as Abraham, Ramses I was Moses, the Chosen People were Egyptians from Akhet-Aten, the Hebrews not slaves but conquering rulers,…and, Akhenaten was a Big Brain Hominid, not a human. Books that are very useful include: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles Hapgood, Big Brain by Professors Gary Lynch and Richard Granger, The Enigma of Cranial Deformation by Brien Foerster, and Underworld by Graham Hancock. I will also add to the list, which I will expand later, the Jefferson Bible, a thin book on the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ, Akhenaten, The Heretic King, by Donald D. Redford, Akhenaten, Egypt’s False Prophet, by Nicholas Reeves Messod and Roger Sabbah: Secrets of the Exodus, Did the Pharaohs Write the Bible? Gary Greenberg: The Moses Mystery, The Egyptian Origins of the Jewish People. Ahmed Osman: Moses and Akhenaten The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus. Professor Bryan Sykes 11/26/2012 Oxford Ancestors Dear Professor Sykes, The entire earth was mapped during the last ice age by an unknown mysterious civilization. Sea level was 400 ft. lower and there was no ice cap over the Queen Maud Land Coast of Antarctica. This is from the work of Charles Hapgood: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings. A brief review of his book is below. In 2008 Neuroscientists Gary Lynch, PhD, and Richard Granger, PhD, published Big Brain, which dealt with the 1914 discovery of a skull in Boskop South Africa.
    [Show full text]
  • Charles Hapgood
    Charles Hapgood Pour les articles homonymes, voir Hapgood. diqua que les pôles avaient varié de 15 degrés vers 9600 Charles Hapgood av. J.-C., et qu'une partie de l'Antarctique était libre de Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1904 - 1982) fut un uni- glaces à l'époque, suggérant implicitement qu'une civili- sation glaciaire pourrait avoir cartographié la côte à ce moment-là. Les hypothèses géologiques de Hapgood ont été infir- mées par les recherches géologiques et climatologiques récentes : l'analyse des carottes glaciaires montrant que l'Antarctique serait couvert de glace depuis au moins 800 000 ans. Néanmoins, certains auteurs actuels, comme versitaire américain et l'un des plus grands défenseurs de Graham Hancock, évoquent toujours son travail et dé- la théorie des changements des pôles. montrent à quel point « l'avis conventionnel » accepté par les orthodoxes peut être dénué de bon sens logique face aux vestiges de l'histoire. Ses thèses ont toutefois inspiré 1 Biographie bon nombre de spéculations fantastiques sur l'archéologie et le passé humain, thèses qui selon Garret Fagan ne cor- Hapgood obtint une maîtrise en histoire médiévale et respondent pas à la démarche scientifique mais égarent le moderne de l'Université Harvard en 1932. Son doctorat public[1]. Pour l'historien des sciences Gordon L. Herries « Travaux sur la Révolution française » fut interrompu Davies ses hypothèses sur la cartographie ancienne sont par la Grande Dépression de 1929. Il enseigna pendant un de la « pseudo-science »[2]. an dans le Vermont et fut secrétaire exécutif de Franklin Hapgood épousa Tamsin Hughes en 1941. Ils divorcèrent Roosevelt pour l'artisanat.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Contributions of Albert Einstein to Earth Sciences
    1 Contributions of Albert Einstein to Earth Sciences: A review in Commemoration 2 of the W orld Year of Physics 3 4 Jesús Martínez-Frías1, David Hochberg1 and Fernando Rull1,2 5 6 1 Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC/INTA), associated to the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Ctra de 7 Ajalvir, km 4, 28850 Torrejon de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain, Tel: +34-91-5201111, Fax: +34-91- 8 5201621, e-mail: martinezfrias@ mncn.csic.es 9 2 Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias and Unidad Asociada al Centro de 10 Astrobiologia, Universidad de ValladolidœCSIC, 47006 Valladolid, Spain 11 Abstract 12 The W orld Year of Physics (2005) is an international celebration to commemorate the 13 100th anniversary of Einstein's "Annus Mirabilis". The United Nations has officially 14 declared 2005 the International Year of Physics. However, the impact of Einstein´s 15 ideas was not restricted to physics. Among numerous other disciplines, Einstein also 16 made significant and specific contributions to Earth Sciences. His geosciences-related 17 letters, comments, and scientific articles, are dispersed, not easily accessible and are 18 poorly known. The present review attempts to integrate them, as a tribute to Einstein in 19 commemoration of this centenary. These contributions can be classified into three basic 20 areas: geodynamics, geological (planetary) catastrophism and fluvial geomorphology. 21 Regarding geodynamics, Einstein essentially supported Hapgood‘s very controversial 22 theory called Earth Crust Displacement. W ith respect to geological (planetary) 23 catastrophism, it is shown how the ideas of Einstein about Velikovsky‘s proposals 24 evolved from 1946 to 1955. Finally, in relation with fluvial geodynamics, the review 25 incorporates the elegant work in which Einstein explains the formation of meandering 26 rivers.
    [Show full text]
  • “The Earth Moves” an Extract from Bill Bryson's
    “The Earth Moves” an extract from Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of nearly Everything’. In one of his last professional acts before his death, in 1955, Albert Einstein wrote a short but glowing foreword to a book by a geologist named Charles Hapgood entitled Earths Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science. Hapgood’s book was a steady demolition of the idea that the continents were in motion. In a tone that all but invited the reader to join him in a tolerant chuckle, Hapgood observed that a few gullible souls had noticed ‘an apparent correspondence in shape between certain continents’. It would appear, he went on, that South America might be fitted together with Africa, and so on … It is even claimed that rock formations on the opposite sides of the Atlantic match.’ Mr Hapgood briskly dismissed any such notions, noting that the geologists K. E. Caster and J. C. Mendes had done extensive fieldwork on both sides of the Atlantic and had established beyond question that no such similarities existed. Goodness knows what outcrops Messrs Caster and Mendes had looked at, because in fact many of the rock formations on both sides of the Atlantic are the same – not just similar but the same. This was not an idea that flew with Mr Hapgood, or many other geologists of his day. The theory Hapgood alluded to was one first pronounced in 1908 by an amateur American geologist named Frank Bursley Taylor. Taylor came from a wealthy family and had both the means and the freedom from academic constraints to pursue unconventional lines of enquiry.
    [Show full text]
  • Beth Hapgood Papers, 1818-2005 (Bulk 1967-2005) Finding Aid
    Special Collections and University Archives : University Libraries Beth Hapgood Papers 1789-2005 (Bulk: 1967-2005) 67 boxes (35 linear ft.) Call no.: MS 434 Collection overview Daughter of a writer and diplomat, and graduate of Wellesley College, Beth Hapgood has been a spiritual seeker for much of her life. Her interests have led her to become an expert in graphology, a student in the Arcane School, an instructor at Greenfield Community College, and a lecturer on a variety of topics in spiritual growth. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Hapgood befriended Michael Metelica, the central figure in the Brotherhood of the Spirit (the largest commune in the eastern states during the early 1970s) as well as Elwood Babbitt, a trance medium, and remained close to both until their deaths. The Hapgood Papers contain a wealth of material relating to the Brotherhood of the Spirit and the Renaissance Community, Metelica, Babbitt, and other of Hapgood's varied interests, as well as 4.25 linear feet of material relating to the Hapgood family. See similar SCUA collections: Counterculture Intentional communities Massachusetts (West) Printed materials Religion Social change Spiritual change Background on Beth Hapgood A self-described "observer," spiritual seeker, historian, and writer, Beth Hapgood was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, during the height of the great influenza epidemic of 1918, the first of three children in a family of intellectuals and writers. Her father Norman Hapgood, was a diplomat under Woodrow Wilson and a prominent editor of magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and the Christian Register. Her mother Elizabeth (Reynolds) was one of the first female professors at Dartmouth, a linguist who was instrumental in Beth Hapgood with members of the establishing the Russian department and who served as Brotherhood of the Spirit.
    [Show full text]
  • A Review of the Contributions of Albert Einstein to Earth Sciences—In Commemoration of the World Year of Physics
    Naturwissenschaften DOI 10.1007/s00114-005-0076-8 MINI-REVIEW Jesús Martínez-Frías . David Hochberg . Fernando Rull A review of the contributions of Albert Einstein to Earth Sciences—in commemoration of the World Year of Physics Received: 7 February 2005 / Accepted: 12 December 2005 # Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The World Year of Physics (2005) is an inter- Introduction national celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s “Annus Mirabilis.” The United Nations has In 1905, the same year that Albert Einstein obtained his officially declared 2005 as the International Year of doctorate after submitting his thesis (University of Zurich) Physics. However, the impact of Einstein’s ideas was not On a new determination of molecular dimensions, he pub- restricted to physics. Among numerous other disciplines, lished his five famous articles (Bushev 2000; Pais 1983; Einstein also made significant and specific contributions to Stachel 1998): On an heuristic viewpoint about the emer- Earth Sciences. His geosciences-related letters, comments, gence and conversion of light—submitted in March; A new and scientific articles are dispersed, not easily accessible, determination of the molecular dimensions—submitted in and are poorly known. The present review attempts to April; On the movement, required by the molecular theory integrate them as a tribute to Einstein in commemoration of of heat, of particles suspended in a motionless fluid— this centenary. These contributions can be classified into submitted in May; Towards the electrodynamics of moving three basic areas: geodynamics, geological (planetary) ca- bodies—submitted in June; and Does the inertia of a body tastrophism, and fluvial geomorphology. Regarding geo- depend on the energy it contains?—submitted in dynamics, Einstein essentially supported Hapgood’s very September.
    [Show full text]
  • The Concept of Atlantis Is One of the Most Powerful and Pervasive Ideas
    Steven Armstrong, F.R.C. he concept of Atlantis is one of the variability of sea levels during historical and most powerful and pervasive ideas in pre–historical periods has more then the western psyche. If Atlantis had compensated for this difficulty, and has Tnot existed, we would need to create the Lost produced a myriad of Atlantean theories. Continent, so important is this mythos to us. In an endeavor such as the search for Indeed, in the science fiction universe of Star Atlantis, controversy is inevitable. Research Trek, this is exactly what the government of and methods generally fall into two camps. Earth and the United Federation of Planets Academic mainstream archaeology and its began doing in the mid–twenty–fourth allied sciences tend to be naturally conservative century CE, geo–engineering a new continent 1 in their methodology and claims, and these in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. researchers consider very few sites as serious More recently, on U.S. television’s longest candidates. Indeed, the main–stream view is running science fiction program, Stargate that Plato’s story was a myth, and so it is a SG–1, humanity discovers that Atlantis was minority of orthodox scholars who continue an ancient city capable of interstellar flight, to search for Atlantis today. created by our distant ancestors who then 2 On the other hand, alternate subsequently ascended to the psychic realm. archaeologists and historians are often more Stargate Atlantis In the spin–off program , daring in their theories, challenging standard which began in 2004, an international team paradigms and explanations.
    [Show full text]
  • The Ice Age and Ancient Maps
    Letters canyon is without a doubt from through about a mile of ice which Jeff Van Dyke volcanic action. All the lithography covers this area today. Mr Hancock’s South Carolina on the mountain is igneous. This is book includes information about the USA supported not only by field geology evaluation of the Piri Re’is map, by but also through satellite imagery. the United States Airforce in 1960, References John Baumgardner of Los Alamos for Professor Charles H. Hapgood of National Laboratory visited the Keene College, New Hampshire. I 1. Hancock, G. and Santha Faiia (photographer), Fingerprints of the Gods, Crown Pub., May, mountain on several occasions and quote from the USAF letter, ‘We have 1995. it was his opinion that the mountain no idea how the data on this map can 2. Oard, M.J., The extinction of the woolly rose after the Flood. be reconciled with the supposed state mammoth: was it a quick freeze? CEN Tech. Using water volumes and altitudes of geographical knowledge in 1513.’ J. 14(3):24–34, 2000. can be a rather slippery form of We must conclude that a civilization 3. Lalomov, A.V., The extinction of the woolly evidence. The Flood itself probably existed, and considered ancient during mammoth, TJ 15(2):50, 2001. was so catastrophic that mountains may the admiral’s time, with the means to have been pushed up and conceivably map Antarctica. The question is, did some worn down. In other words, we they have a technology to acquire cannot use present day altitudes to topographical data through the ice calculate water depth.
    [Show full text]
  • SHATTERING the MYTHS DARWINISM
    SHATTERING the MYTHS of DARWINISM RICHARD MILTON • = Park Street Press Rochester, Vermont Park Street Press One Park Street Rochester, Vermont 05767 www.gotoit.com Copyright© 1992, 1997 by Richard Milton First U.S. edition published by Park Street Press in 1997 Originally published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate Limited All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo­ copying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. LIBRARY oF CoNGREss CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Milton, Richard, 1943- [Facts of life] Shattering the myths of Darwinism I Richard Milton. p. em. "Originally published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate Limited"- T.p. verso. Originally published: Facts of life : London : Corgi Books, 1993. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes. ISBN 0-89281-732-1 (alk. paper) 1. Evolution (Biology)-Philosophy. I. Title. QH360.5.M55 1997 576.8'2-DC21 97-9962 CIP Printed and bound in Canada 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Text design and layout by Kristin Camp This book was typeset inJ anson with Lucida Sans as the display typeface Park Street Press is a division of Inner Traditions International Distributed to the book trade in Canada by Publishers Group West (PGW), Toronto, Ontario Contents Preface lX PART ONE: CHAOS 1. A National Tr easure 2 2. Through the Looking Glass 7 3. A Matter of Conjecture 15 4. The Key to the Past? 25 5. Rock of Ages 37 PART TWO: CLAY 6.
    [Show full text]