Contents
ARTICLES:
I ntelligent Design? …………………………………………………………….……….…… 2
David Salkeld
Velikovskian Catastrophism: Science or Pseudoscience?
Part III – Thomas Kuhn and the Myth of ‘Mob Psychology’ …….. 18
Paul Sukys
Studies In Persian Chronology – A Response
to Jonsson ………………………………………………………………………………………… 30
Rolf J. Furuli
The ‘Great Star’ of Antiquity ………………..………………………………..……. 40
Ev Cochrane
Catastrophic Black Sea Floods and
the Story of Noah …………………………………………………………………………… 45
Trevor Palmer
Dendrochronology – Data from Anatolia
and the Dating of Thera ….…………………………………………………………… 55
Barry Curnock
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NEAR-EASTERN
ARCHAEOLOGY – Robert M. Porter ……………………………..……………. 63
BOOK REVIEWS: Trevor Palmer reviews Bernard
Newgrosh’s Chronology at the Crossroads: the Late
Bronze Age in Western Asia; Jill Abery reviews
Dwardu Cardona’s Flare Star ………………………………….………………………… 68
EDITORIAL ADDRESS
‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley,
Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM – Jill Abery
(Editorial Co-ordinator), Daphne
Chappell, Phillip Clapham,
Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce,
Emmet Sweeney and David Roth
CONSULTANTS
Jill Abery – Biology
J Bernard Delair – Geology
Laurence Dixon – Mathematics
Lewis M Greenberg – History of Art
Carl O Jonsson – Biblical Studies &
late Assyrian/Babylonian history
Trevor Palmer – Biochemistry
Robert M Porter – Egyptology
Wal Thornhill – Physics/Astronomy
Peter Warlow – Physics
Irving Wolfe – Psychology of
Catastrophe
PRODUCTION
Val Pearce
MEMBERSHIP & ENQUIRIES
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