Note that there is no Part B.
Articles
Dr Trevor Palmer: Catastrophism and Evolution 99
An authority in the field of mutational change reviews the growing weight of evidence from many disciplines for patterns of catastrophic evolution.
Professor Robert Jastrow: Velikovsky: Hero or Heretic? 21
An eminent astronomer and geologist assess Velikovsky’s contribution to science in the light of evidence from the geological and climatological records.
Features:
Focus:
Comets, Meteorites and Earth History: S.I.S. Spring Meeting 1984 2
In Defence of Sir Fred Hoyle by Dr Michael Shallis 5
Causal Relationships: Freud, Stekel and Velikovsky 7
Showers of Glass 8
Forum:
Dr Earl Milton: Celestial Dynamics and “Worlds in Collision” 24
Leroy Ellenberger: Wild Motions, Angular Momentum and Other Problems 26
Dr Eva Danelius: An Appendix to my Articles on Hatshepsut and Thutmose III 29
Dr John Bimson: On Dayton and Dating – with a reply by John Dayton 31
Jill Abery: The Domestication of Cattle: Interdisciplinary Evidence for Catastrophism – with a comment from Dr Bernard Newgrosh 33
Briefings:
René Gallant: A Pioneer of Modern Catastrophism 3
Iridium and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs 17
Velikovsky and Egyptology 30
Back Issues: Full Listings back cover
Back cover
Bookshelf:
Brian Moore reviews The Cosmic Heretics by Alfred de Grazia 35
Letters:
from Eric Crew, Professor Archie Roy and Dr William Stiebing 36
This issue is dedicated to the memory of René Gallant (see pp. 2-3)
Cover illustration – Imaginative depiction of an awesome sword-shaped comet seen in 1527: 16th-century English woodcut.
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