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...it is astonishing that unscientific explanation ever came to be formulated, yet in a short time both it and the concept of immense thick ice-sheets descending from a hypothetical northern mountain system, to cover all of northern and eastern North America and western and northern Eurasia, was enthusiasti- cally embraced and came to be regarded as virtually established fact. (p. 24) Today, the world’s coldest known land region is north-eastern Siberia. There, if anywhere, we might expect huge ice-sheets to have developed if the Ice Age theory possessed validity. Yet comparatively very few areas of Siberia exhibit signs of significant glaciation, either past or present. Clearly great cold does not itself of itself necessarily promote the development of ice-sheets. (p. 39) Again, in start contrast to orthodox Ice Age theory, even many northern areas outside Siberia said to have lain under the thickest parts of the alleged ice-sheets afford scant evidence of glaciation or ice- sculpturing of any sort, and in numerous cases are actually devoid of it. (p. 39) .. northern latitudes have yielded several unexpected discoveries totally at variance with the tenet of vast sprawling North Polar ice-sheets. Their collective message is a singular one. (p. 40) Why is glacial evidence absent from parts of mainland Britain and the bed of the North Sea if an ice- sheet allegedly mantled the entire region? Was it because, as intimated earlier, glacial action actually never occurred there? (p. 42) We can scarcely continue to associate the development of massive ice-sheets with mountain systems generally too low to have acted as effective causal agents of such glaciation. (p. 42) Typical “drift” deposits occur far outside allegedly glaciated regions, or, conversely, are absent from many others believed to have been heavily glaciated. Abnormally buried organic remains in otherwise typical “drift” deposits often occur in latitudes inimical to large-scale ice action. These are inescapable facts strongly mitigating against the popular explanation of the origin of these great deposits. (p. 135) Thus, if many of today’s highest mountains were much lower when the alleged Ice Age was reputedly at its zenith, how did so much ice, if it actually existed, manage to accumulate? Indeed we can take a step further and ask whether the ice-sheets so beloved of glacialists ever existed at all! (p. 42) The underlying problem, of course, has been the continued acceptance of the constraints inherent in Lyell’s “uniformitarianism”, with its insistence upon terrestrial agencies being the sole generators of observable topographical and atmospheric changes... (p. 44) ...uniformitarianism, while certainly not a fallacious doctrine, is yet no more than a particular aspect of a wider whole... (p. 44) And when it is discovered that it is possible to produce rock striae...by such dissimilar agents as drift — sand, fast-moving nuees ardentes (swiftly flowing, high temperature, gaseous clouds erupted from vol- canoes)...snow, mud-slides, and high pressure grit-charged steam, we are obliged to seriously question the alleged glacial origin of the striae generally, particularly when, as in numerous instances, they too, occur far outside the furthest traceable limits of supposed bygone ice-sheets.(p. 46) The gigantic worldwide tectonic disturbances of the “late Pleistocene” times occurred almost simulta- neously on a near imaginable scale—precisely what could be expected from a powerful external influ- ence but not from the “Ice Age” conditions conventionally believed to have existed then. (p. 262) “Ice is much softer and more easily crushed than the great majority of rock, and would itself be crushed and reduced to slush by its own pressure long before the rock upon which it stands could itself be bro- ken...we are asked to believe that the same ice which thus shattered such intractable materials in situ 171 Appendix B: Book Abstracts The Ice Age Fallacy ...snowfall during Ice Age times was not appreciably heavier than that of today. (p. 42) Impossible Ice Action Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation