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s e a- l e v e l r i s e s i n t h e p a s t（s e - l e v e l r e年代我n t h e p s t）

SEA-LEVEL RISES: SCIENCE AND MYTH. Conrado Salas Cano ( skeptic_of_pseudoscience@ ) Physics department, Portland State University, P.O. 751 Portland, Oregon 97207-0751 ABSTRACT: We live in a watery and turbid world where many unpredictable things can happen. It is a feeling shared by some that many scientists are afraid to make waves, afraid to sink established edifices, afraid to burst the dam of conventional models and let the torrents of reality gush through. It appears to some persons that Skepticism, that vital floodgate of any scientific acceptance, has at many points gotten iced for lack of use, and now threatens to stifle and shut off the very free flow of ideas it was originally meant to safeguard. If the stone-builders who have so patiently and glacially built the edifice of modern geology throughout their ``great work of ages`` wanted to leave in the scientific and public mind any idea of dramatic upheavals in the recent past of the Earth instantly discredited as ``Velikovskian catastrophism``, on a par with 7-day yahoo creationism and the Immaculate conception of Mary, they could not have done a better job. The word ``flood``, indeed, has become unmentionable in some professional geological, biological and paleontological circles, almost synonymous with 6400-year-old Earths and the reunification of church and state. The study of the last cosmic seconds of our still so poorly understood planet has become in recent years almost another religion, as gripped by fear, dogma, fiats and taboos as the 17th century Archbishop Usher`s clergy; conceptual advances in the field must be glacially slow or they must not be. Thus spoketh at least our canonized and illuminated Pope from His Harvard Paleontology Chair, sex dierum interstitiis, ex cathedra and ex nihilo. Still, as it has at last dawned on many conservative scientists and the public at large for the past decade, we live in a dangerous solar system, sudden global catastrophes do happen, and comets do