Ted's Worldview

By David Iain Greig

Last Revised: 11 Oct 1995

1) "The Golden Age": that life on Earth was formerly in a "Garden of Eden" state, and that this state ended catastrophically, as per a Velikovskian scenario. This was in recent, but pre-historic times. Thus we are all degenerate products of a happier, better age.

2) In the "Catastrophe", a variety of forces were unleashed on the life and geology of the Earth, causing rapid extinction of life forms; this is evidenced by dead 'megafauna' and mammoths frozen in permafrost (claimed that this could only have happened in a sudden freeze). The large numbers of mammoths whose remains are found within the Arctic Circle could not have lived there when paleontologists claim that they did (given uniformitarian hypotheses).

3) That in the Golden Age, the Earth was in an orbital configuration with Saturn; the continents were located at the pole facing Saturn in a 'world mountain' formation. This configuration caused a significant decrease in effective gravity on the Earth's surface, and allowed the rise of megafauna such as large brachiosaurs, teratorns, and other life forms that (it is claimed) have arisen or survived in a constant 1 g field. Tidal forces accounted for only a part of this attenuation of gravity; some other mechanism (several are postulated) was responsible for the bulk of the reduction of gravity.

4) As a consequence, geological dating methods are flawed. Given that they give dates that are inconsistent with the above scenario (i.e all dinosaurs died at the end of the Cretaceous, 65 Mya), then they are obviously all incorrect. Another problem would be that the 'Megafauna' are considered by paleontologists to have lived over a considerable range of different time periods; giant insects, plants, dinosaurs and birds lived in all different geological ages according to paleontologists; this is clearly in error.

5) Darwinian evolution is invalid. Given that no major change has been recorded in any species in historical times, there is thus no evidence that macroevolution is a viable theory to explain the pattern of life. E.g.: given that there are escaped 'feral' chickens, there should be pressure on chickens to improve their flight characteristics to avoid predation; since we see no flocks of feral chickens flying overhead , this shows the clear poverty of the Darwinian model. Also, given that modern life forms are so specialized for their niches, it would prevent them from surviving in their environment should they have lacked such specializations. One example is the evolution of echolocation in bats and whales; the 'proto-bat' could not have managed to catch insects if it were lacking the echolocative system modern bats employ; this no bats could have evolved echolocation.

6) The planet Venus played a large part in the Catastrophe. Venus was formed only recently; the proof of this is that Venus is not in thermal equilibrium, as evidenced by data from the Pioneer probes that showed a greater heat flux upwards in the Venusian atmosphere than the amount of energy Venus receives from the Sun. Also, the Venusian surface has undergone significant resurfacing, erasing old cratering of the crust, indicating a youthful, tectonically and volcanically active Venus.

7) Given that ancient languages we have records of were syntactically more complex than modern languages, we see that modern tongues are degenerate descendants of the primaeval common tongue; it is further hypothesized that speech was in fact only required post- Catastrophe, as prior to this humans were telepathic, and able to communicate without verbalization.