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Nature’s Evidence 1,400ft hill in France is capped by the remains of mammoths, reindeer, horses and other animals. America has beds of fossil bones containing 100 bones per square foot, deposited in sand. Some of these are over 200 ft high. The hills of the Himalayas and Burma contain similar beds of bones, In China, among these fractured bones, the skeletons of seven humans were found. European, Melanesian and Eskimo types were lying together. Extinct and extant species of animals have been found mixed together in English deposits. INaALUre'S HVIUeEHce reindeer, horses and other animals. ‘America has beds of fossil bones containing 100 bones per square foot, deposited in sand. Tn Earth in Upheaval, Velikovsky excluded all references to Some of these are over 200 ft high. The hills of the Himalayas ancient literature, traditions and folklore; and Burma contain similar beds of bones, In China, among “This I have done with intent, so that careless critics these fractured bones, the skeletons of seven humans were cannot decry the entire work as tales and legends. Stones found. European, Melanesian and Eskimo types were lying and bones are the only witnesses.” together. Extinct and extant species of animals have been All over the coast of Alaska there are great heaps of found mixed together in English deposits. smashed bones of extinct animals mingled with uprooted trees and the occasional flint spearhead. Four layers of volcanic ash can be found in these remains of splintered trees and dismem- Wre cords bered bodies. In the polar regions of Siberia and on the Arctic islands there are hills of broken wood piled hundreds of feet The conventional theory of slow and uniform geological high, and beyond them hills of mammoth bones cemented processes cannot explain these deposits - instead, they are together by frozen sand. On one island the bones of these evidence of major catastrophes which have struck the planet. animals were found with fossilised trees, leaves and cones. Velikovsky suggests a giant tidal wave which engulfed the When the mammoth lived in Siberia there was abundant world that picked up and carried plants and animals over a vegetation. great distance and smashed them intermingled into common Spitsbergen is nearly 79 degrees north; yet fossil flowers graves. This and the transformation of the Earth’s climate are and corals and beds of coal thirty feet thick have been found. explained as consequences of the rapid change of the Earth’s Antarctica is known to have scams of coal at a latitude of 85 axis brought about by a near-collision with another planet. degrees. For this coal to have formed, the polar regions must The geological record tells a similar compelling story to have had great forests in the past. How can relatively recentand that which paleontologists have unearthed. At 1,400 ft (400 sudden changes in the Earth’s climate and simultaneous wide- metres) altitude in the Andes there are high water surf marks spread destruction of plant and animal species be explained? lined with undecayed seashells. There are many ruins sur- The violence of this destruction can be seen across Westem rounded by terraces for cultivation on the dry West side of the Europe where every major rock fissure is filled with the bones Andes. On the East side, terraces continue far past the perma- of animals, splintered and smashed into fragments. One nent snowline. Before the last lava sheet spread over Columbia there were human settlements there, the remains of which have been found. That the Andes mountains were raised in fairly recent times by unimaginable forces is one conclusion. The ocean floor around the globe also bears witness to flows of lava and volcanic ash which covered a violently shifting bedrock while tidal waves battered the continents. There were once dry land and beaches in many places where the Atlantic Occan now lies. The bottom of the seas show that the Earth has been showered with meteorites on a very large scale, leaving clay deposits rich in nickel, radium and iron. When the Earth’s axis was shifted by the interaction of the Earth’s and the planet’s magnetic fields, magnetic eddy cur- rents formed in the atmosphere. These generated great heat and melted rocks on the surface. As this rock cooled, it reformed with a different magnetic polarity to surrounding strata. All over the world, similar local rock formations are found with their magnetic polarisation reversed. For this to be the case the Earth’s magnetic field must have been reversed when these rocks were formed. Also, rocks with this inverted polarity are far more strongly magnetised than the Earth’s magnetic field alone can account for. Why was volcanic activity so common in the recent past? How was the sea floor raised and lowered around the world? As the Earth’s axis shifted in earlier times, the inertia of air and water caused hurricanes and tidal waves; the stress on the planet caused vulcanism and an outpouring of magma, sending up clouds of volcanic ash that threw a cloak of darkness over a sunless world. 20 NEXUS New Times Seven - Summer 1989 Wrecords The conventional theory of slow and uniform geological processes cannot explain these deposits - instead, they are evidence of major catastrophes which have struck the planet. Velikovsky suggests a giant tidal wave which engulfed the world that picked up and carried plants and animals over a great distance and smashed them intermingled into common graves. This and the transformation of the Earth’s climate are explained as consequences of the rapid change of the Earth’s axis brought about by a near-collision with another planet. The geological record tells a similar compelling story to that which paleontologists have unearthed. At 1,400 ft (400 metres) altitude in the Andes there are high water surf marks lined with undecayed seashells. There are many ruins sur- rounded by terraces for cultivation on the dry West side of the Andes. On the East side, terraces continue far past the perma- nent snowline. Before the last lava sheet spread over Columbia there were human settlements there, the remains of which have been found. That the Andes mountains were raised in fairly recent times by unimaginable forces is one conclusion. The ocean floor around the globe also bears witness to flows of lava and volcanic ash which covered a violently shifting bedrock while tidal waves battered the continents. There were once dry land and beaches in many places where the Atlantic Occan now lies. The bottom of the seas show that the Earth has been showered with meteorites on a very large scale, leaving clay deposits rich in nickel, radium and iron. When the Earth’s axis was shifted by the interaction of the Earth’s and the planet’s magnetic fields, magnetic eddy cur- rents formed in the atmosphere. These generated great heat and melted rocks on the surface. As this rock cooled, it reformed with a different magnetic polarity to surrounding strata. All over the world, similar local rock formations are found with their magnetic polarisation reversed. For this to be the case the Earth’s magnetic field must have been reversed when these rocks were formed. Also, rocks with this inverted polarity are far more strongly magnetised than the Earth’s magnetic field alone can account for. Why was volcanic activity so common in the recent past? How was the sea floor raised and lowered around the world? As the Earth’s axis shifted in earlier times, the inertia of air and water caused hurricanes and tidal waves; the stress on the planet caused vulcanism and an outpouring of magma, sending up clouds of volcanic ash that threw a cloak of darkness over a sunless world.