The Disaster Cycle - Full Documentary

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This is Ben Davidson’s long awaited documentary on the Earth Disaster Cycle which describes the effects he predicts will occur during and after a Geomagnetic Excursion.

I think he has done a pretty good job with the production and I would recommend it for those interested in Catastrophism, but there are some aspects of his documentary that I do not agree with and I will describe them in detail below.

The Earth Turns Over.

This is my main point of contention with Ben’s hypothesis; it requires an explanation that I feel is missing from this documentary and his earlier videos as well (I have included a link to one of these below) - I am not aware of this idea being adequately explained in any of them. In some cases, I feel he has cherry-picked information to give weight to his views without taking it in context and without describing the physical mechanism. This does not necessarily mean he is wrong, it just means that the cause and effect are inconclusive.

We can tell that Geomagnetic Excursions (magnetic pole reversals) have occurred on Earth many times in the distant past. This is evidenced by the changing magnetic polarity of once molten rock and fossilized remains of animals and plants. There does appear to be a periodicity to some of these reversals, but dating such events - indeed dating anything older than about a thousand years involves many assumptions and large margins of error, despite scientific techniques which we are assured are accurate. The dating techniques are forced to comply with Uniformitarian ideas so deeply entrenched in science, geology and history books, that it is heresy to even question them.

There is also strong evidence to indicate that the orientation of the Earth has been different in the past and that it has changed on numerous occasions. Fossilized beds of coral and rich seams of coal in places as frigid as Svalbard, dinosaur fossils from Antarctica, tens of thousands of flash-frozen mammoth carcasses located in Siberia where no food for them now grows, intricately made Ancient Egyptian sundials that reveal a consistent error in the passage of the Sun across the sky at that latitude, megalithic structures out of alignment with the celestial events they were apparently dedicated to and numerous adjustments to calendar systems even into relatively modern times are just a few examples.

But, as far as I know, there is no evidence to indicate that a Geomagnetic Excursion causes a change in the orientation of the Earth. These could be entirely unrelated events, though each catastrophic in their own right. Both could result in widespread extinctions but a magnetic reversal does not, to me, indicate the Earth Turns Over.

In the below video, Ben quotes both Immanuel Velikovsky and Albert Einstein to give credence to his hypothesis, but these contemporary thinkers held wildly opposite scientific views and in both cases he has taken their comments out of context.

Velikovsky, in his books Worlds In Collision and Earth In Upheaval, was famously vilified for daring to say that the orientation of Earth had changed during periods of global catastrophe. But he did not say this was because of a reversal of the magnetic pole, nor that it had occurred on a six or twelve thousand year cycle. The changes in orientation he described were due to repeated and terrifying near misses as Venus and later Mars crossed Earth’s orbit during several centuries of Solar System rearrangement. These catastrophes were witnessed by Mankind and very clearly associated with the close approach of these two particular planets, which according to him, occurred between the second and third millennium BC.

Velikovsky’s view was that the planets were electrically charged bodies and that a close approach between them would cause an electro-magnetic disturbance to their mutual orientation along with violent electric discharges (Thunderbolts of the Gods). Since those terrible centuries, the Earth, Venus and Mars have all remained in stable orbits that do not cross and no further changes in planetary orientation are anticipated unless some new wandering planet comes our way.

Because Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was challenged by Velikovsky’s Electric Solar System Model and because the evidence of Earth’s changed orientation is hard to dispute, Einstein felt compelled to offer an alternative explanation that was compatible with Relativity. He supported Charles Hapgood’s hypothesis of “Earth Crust Displacement,” caused by changes in the distribution of the Ice Caps, though later estimates suggest there is not nearly enough ice to create this effect.

Einstein certainly did not support the idea of a catastrophic reorientation of Earth due to a Solar Micro-nova or Geomagnetic Reversal. Relativity theory requires the planets to be electrically neutral bodies and that there are no electro-magnetic interactions across space, everything is governed by Gravity and Inertia.

Earth Turns Over When The Crust Unlocks