Nonionic Surfactants: Alkyl Polyglucosides (Surfactant Science)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Don't throw the baby out with the bath water

The Great Evolution Mystery
Gordon Rattray Taylor
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.......2003-10-06

This book, although written from the perspective of a firm believer in naturalistic evolution, is about that question we all ask at times: "Now come on, could natural selection really have done this or that particular thing?" Mr. Rattray Taylor thinks not, in most cases. He believes that the natural selection of Darwinism and "neo-Darwinism" accounts for variations within species but probably little else. He predicts that natural selection as it is now taught and understood will turn out to be only a piece of a bigger puzzle, just as Newtonian physics is now seen as one part of Einstein's bigger picture.

Despite it's broad scope and scientific detail, I found this book wonderfully readable. Whichever side you fall on, the debate is a lively one, related in a colorful way against a backdrop of some of nature's most remarkable feats.

Biological examples from throughout the eons are cited which (like examining your own hand) will have you wondering, "Could this have come about by 'chance'? Even in a billion years?" The frustrations which many earnest scientific types have had with Darwin's theory are presented, as well as such alternatives as Lamarckism ("down but not out") and the author's own (vaguely delineated, barely discussed) "masking theory."

Rattray Taylor considers it beyond belief that the kind of coordinated mutations which would seem to be necessary for most major evolutionary developments could have arisen randomly in such "short" time periods as they seem to have required. Near the very end of the book, he addresses this and other perceived inadequacies of current teaching by suggesting that the genome stores the codes for successful adaptations even after they evolve away, keeping them "masked" until such time as they may be useful again, at which point it allows whole suites of mutations, prescreened for compatibility with each other and the rest of the creature's design, to be expressed. At times, though, he also seems to suggest that primordial DNA knew how to make a placenta, a feather, etc., before any such thing had ever evolved in the first place. This may be my own misunderstanding.

To me, the reader, it seems plausible enough, even likely, that natural selection could have hit upon various mechanisms with a kind of inadvertent insight into what sorts of mutations would be advantageous or mechanisms with some adaptive influence on the genome beyond one's parents' having lived to sexual maturity. So far as this book encourages speculation into these and other possibilities, I like it fine. What I find a little disturbing, though, is that Mr. Rattray Taylor seems to be saying it's time to give up on the idea of natural selection as the main evolutionary mechanism. What he offers in its place are some interesting lines of inquiry but nothing nearly so useful or so formulated as the modern versions of Darwin's theory. It's important, by all means, to question and challenge, but with the whole topic as murky as it is, why not keep pursuing the natural selection angle at the same time?

I was hoping Mr. Rattray Taylor would at least acknowledge that it's always tricky for humans -- rank newcomers on the scene -- to say that something couldn't happen in a million years, much less a billion. He also left me puzzled by some of his thinking about evolution. Lesser luminaries than this author have tended to personify natural selection, characterizing it as something that cares more about one thing than another or as something working toward a goal. Rattray Taylor almost seems to be doing this in numerous places throughout the book. He keeps asking why some feature would evolve in one type of animal and not in some other who could make just as much use of it or why some feature would evolve at all in one animal when animals in similar circumstances do fine without it.

To me, the answer would seem to be, "Because evolution just doesn't care." I thought evolution was just particle interaction. Of all the formations which could arise, some just happen to be persistent, like those collections of soda cans and muck that you find where a canal goes under a bridge. They outlast other formations not because they're good or desirable, but just because they're persistent. Sometimes, just because there's no one around who cares to interfere, persistent forms get tangled up with one another into a bigger persistent form, or some persistent pattern of interaction may develop, like when a toy car gets stuck driving in a circle and makes a deeper and deeper rut in the dirt. Nothing is actively selected. There's no one saying, "Hey that worked over there, so it would be ideal over here," but there's also nothing to stop it from occurring wherever things happen to clump up that way. If the author has considered this, why doesn't he say so?

Rattray Taylor also brings up the old question of how a bee that dies when it stings could pass on the genes for stinging. What's so hard about that? The feature is present in a lot more bees than will use it, and most of the bees survive unmolested because of the one that died putting an abiding fear of bees into some molester.

Still, there are those darned eyeballs to think about, and that darned photosynthesis, etc., etc. This book really does get you wondering what unknown factors might be involved in evolution, and any book that makes you think has that, at least, going for it.

Darwin comes in for a lot of deflating remarks, some of which may well be borne out. But my own great appreciation of Darwin isn't so much for every particular of his theory as for the picture he paints of a world left to its own devices -- devices we can ultimately hope to reconcile with things we see and know. I don't think this contribution of Darwin's will be diminished, even if it is determined that natural selection and its immediate outcroppings aren't the only mechanisms involved in creating new life forms.

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Don't be afraid to embrace biblical truth

Dinosaur Book has No Truth

Your attacks reveal your fear

Silly

Ken Ham puts out the truth, whether you want it or not.

The Great Dinosaur Mystery
Ken Ham
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ASIN: 0890511950

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A rarely seen look at answering the questions associated with these "terrible lizards" from a creationist perspective.

Internationally known author and speaker Ken Ham brings a "new way of thinking" to the table for Christians, emphasizing that in order to properly understand our world we must first look at Scripture. By going to the Bible first for answers, we begin to understand that the dinosaurs were alongside man from the beginning.

Complete with stunning, computer-generated illustrations of dinosaurs, this book promises to be a mainstay of any family library.

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Don't be afraid to embrace biblical truth.......2006-09-07

It takes more faith to believe in secular views on this topic than biblical truth!!

Dinosaur Book has No Truth.......2006-04-12

This offering for Ken Ham for children is full of young earth misconceptions and bad science. To get a full, 18-page review, visit the Book Review section at Answers In Creation (www.answersincreation.org).

Your attacks reveal your fear.......2006-03-25

To all the reviews here that resort to "name-calling" and "Christian-bashing", instead of addressing specific points made in the book: Me thinks thou doest protest too much!

Silly.......2006-02-14

Geez I am so glad this non-scientist put it all together for us. Funny that he figured it out when all of those scientist who have been respected and hard-working professionals in the field for life (with a PhD) have just made a mess or it, or worse, been sneaky and misleading the public.

Folks, evolutionary biologists are not conspiring against free thinking or religion, or leaving out testable options. Rather, if a scientist could come up with a non-conventional view and get it published in a peer-reviewed journal, they wouldn't be ostracized---rather, they'd be offered tenure at Harvard.

Christians should be outraged by this crap. Makes religious people seem like silly want-to-know-nothings that put their fingers in their ears and say la-la-la whenever facts and science are discussed. This way of denial and construction of embarrasing fantasy doesn't have to be the only option for the religious-minded.

Ken Ham puts out the truth, whether you want it or not........2005-12-25

"the close-minded, vain beliefs that most Christians harbor. anti-intellectual"

Who is the one with a closed mind? sounds obvious to me.
Give us students the freedom of choice, I don't want one idea forced on me. be it evolution or creation, the danger is having only one idea. What the Catholic church at one time abused perverting christianity for its own powers and control, this is now being done by evolution and those closed minded thinking by forcing one theory. there are only 2 options, the earth created itself, or someone created it. give me my freedom of choice. Thank you.

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Great Themes of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

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