TY - BOOK AU - Patten,Donald W. TI - The Biblical flood and the ice epoch: a study in scientific history AV - BS 658 .P347 1966 U1 - 222.11 PY - 1966/// CY - Seattle PB - Pacific Meridian Pub. Co. KW - Deluge KW - Bible and geology N1 - Bibliography: p. [326]-330; I. A global flood or a local flood -- II. The history of catastrophism and uniformitarianism -- Uniformitarian authors / James Hutton / Charles Lyell / Charles Darwin -- Catastrophic authors / George McCready Price / Byron C. Nelson / Alfred M. Rehwinkel / Henry M. Morris / C. H. Hapgood & Ivan T. Sanderson / Immanuel Velikovsky / Dolph E. Hooker -- III. Past celestial catastrophes -- Astronomy in history / The Ptolemaic system / The Copernican system / Tycho Brahe / Johannes Kepler / Halley, Newton & Whiston -- Past astral catastrophes within the solar system / Planetary interaction / Lunar perturbation / Lunar fragmentization / Fragmentization of a planet / Our scar-faced satellite -- the Moon / Comets -- IV. The tidal nature of the Biblical Flood -- Location of the grounded Ark: its elevation -- Location of the grounded Ark: its heartland location -- The logging of the sequence of events -- World-wide circumstances of sedimentary strata -- The fountains of the deep (oceans) -- The behavior of animals -- V. Orogenesis: the cause of global mountain uplifts -- Geophysical perspectives of our small sphere / The volume of the magma / The flow of fluids and constriction / The direction of thrust -- Uniformitarian approaches to orogenesis / The continental drift theory / The contraction and convection current theories -- The geographical pattern of distribution of recent mountain uplifts / The lunar mountains -- Qualifications for a theory of orogenesis / correct scope / Correct timing / Distance of causation / Direction of causation -- A convergence of disciplines -- An epitaph -- VI. Glaciogenesis: the cause of the ice epoch -- The frozen mammoths: an illustration of sudden freezing -- The regions of sudden chilling -- The depth of the ice mass -- The volume of the ice mass -- The geometry of the ice mass -- The eccentric location of the ice mass -- The ice cave phenomena of Eastern Washington -- Perspectives of the ice epoch / The origin of the ice / The manner of transport of the ice / The location of the deposition of the ice / The dating of the ice epoch -- VII. Model of the flood catastrophe -- Category 1 -- Category 40 -- VIII. Astral catastrophism in ancient literature -- The geographical distribution of ancient flood traditions -- The astral motif in India -- The astral motif in Japan -- The astral motif in Mexico and Peru -- The astral motif in the Middle East / Josephus / The Psalms / Job -- Interlude: recognition of scientific validity of ancient cosmology / Halley, Newton & Whiston / Jonathan Swift / Job -- The significance of catastrophic motifs in ancient literature -- IX. The greenhouse effect -- the antediluvian canopy -- The primordial canopy -- The composition of the antediluvian canopy / Barometric pressure / The mix of gases -- The greenhouse effect -- A primordial (hydrocarboniferous) catastrophe prior to the Flood -- Ozone, an atmospheric radical -- The primordial canopy and actinic radiation -- The curve of declining longevity after the Flood -- Traditions of longevity -- X. Biological uniformitarianism (Darwinism) -- Requirements of Darwinism -- Geological catastrophism and Darwinism / Subtheory 1: geological uniformitarianism / Subtheory 2: survival of the fittest -- Genetics and Darwinism / Subtheory 3: environmental determinism / Subtheory 4: natural selection (inbreeding) / Darwin's marriage -- Endocrinology and Darwinism / Subtheory 5: comparative embryology / Subtheory 6: apemen (missing links) / Acromegaly / Gigantism / Hypothyroidism (cretinism) -- Catastrophic environmental determinism (antediluvian endocrinology) -- The requirement of a biochemical mechanism -- XI. Cosmogony and uniformitarianism -- Immanuel Kant: A general theory of the heavens (1755) -- Simon Laplace: The nebular hypothesis (1796) -- George Darwin: The evolutionary tidal theory (1881) -- Thomas Chamberlin and Forest Moulton: The planetesimal hypothesis (1902) -- James Jeans: Problems of cosmology and stellar dynamics (1919) -- Harold Jeffreys: The collision hypothesis (1924) -- H. N. Russell: The binary star hypothesis (1935) -- R. A. Lyttleton: A variation of the binary star hypothesis (1938) -- Six academic blindspots -- Academic blindspot 7 -- Planetary tides and solar tides -- Academic blindspot 8 -- Heliogeneiss -- Planetary elements from the sun? -- Angular momentum from the sun? -- Elliptical orbits from the sun's rotation? -- The angle of the axis of the various planets and the sun? -- A passing star? -- Action and reaction? -- The Jovian planets -- Stars in the Milky Way -- Galactogenetical hypothesis -- Catastrophic timing / Lyellian time chart / Catastrophic and galactogenetic time chart -- XII. Catastrophism, uniformitarianism and western civilization -- Uniformitarianism as a cosmology / Pluto / Neptune / Uranus / Saturn / Jupiter / Venus / Mercury / Mars -- Uniformitarianism and modern humanism -- Uniformitarianism in western civilization -- Civilization and non-conformity -- Conclusion ER -