Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair

267 Pages·2008·1.9 MB·English

by  Robert J. Schadewald

Worlds of Their Own
A Brief History of Misguided Ideas:
Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and
the Velikovsky Affair

By
Robert J. Schadewald
Edited By
Lois A. Schadewald
Copyright © 2008 by Lois A. Schadewald.
Library of Congress 2007909189
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ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4363-
0435-1
Softcover 978-1-4363-
0434-4
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1003-1
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Contents

Author’s Foreword
Introduction
Part I
One Man’s Collision with Science
Chapter 1
Velikovsky’s Collision1
Chapter 2
Velikovsky: The Last Interview
Part II
The Perpetual Delusion
The Perpetual Delusion
Introduction
Chapter 3
The Schadewald Gravity Engine
Chapter 4
The Idea of a Free Lunch
Chapter 5
The Keely Motor
Chapter 6
Jeremiah 33:3
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
The Attraction of Magnetism
Chapter 9
You Want Really
Advanced Technology?
Chapter 10
Part III
It’s a Small Flat World
It’s a Small Flat World
Introduction
Chapter 11
It’s a Small Flat World
Chapter 12
He Knew Earth Is round,
but His Proof Fell Flat
Chapter 13
The Flat-Out Truth:
Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud!
Part IV
The Plane Truth Confronts Creationism
The Plane Truth Confronts Creationism
Introduction
Chapter 14
Palming Off Religious Dogma
as Science
Chapter 15
Looking for Lighthouses
Chapter 16
The Flat-Earth Bible
Part V
Lying for God:
The Truth about Creationism
Lying for God:
The Truth about Creationism
Introduction
Chapter 17
Lying for God
Chapter 18
What Is Scientific Creationism?
Chapter 19
Creation Pseudoscience
Part VI
The Philosophy of Pseudoscience
Chapter 20
The Philosophy Of Pseudoscience
Chapter 21
Science vs. PseudoScience
Chapter 22
Creationist Propaganda Methods
Part VII
The End?
Chapter 23
Where Were You at the End
of the World?
Appendix
Wait,
There’s
More!
If Continents Can Wander,
Why Not Planets?
When the Earth Was Flat in Zion
Selected Bibliography of Works
by Robert Schadewald
Afterword
by Lois Schadewald
Acknowledgments
ENDNOTES