On 17/09/2007, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/17/07, Ian Tresman
<ian2(a)knowledge.co.uk> wrote:
The credibility of Velikovsky's ideas have
nothing to do with the Pensée series. And
Velikovsky never described planetary "billiards".
My grandparents' library had some of his first editions. I'm
using
one of the modern euphamisms, but I'm intimately familiar with his
work. It has no scientific credibility in the modern sense.
I guess we are going way off topic here, but didn't Velikovsky lay the
seeds of what eventually became the asteroid theory of the extinction
of the dinosaurs? A couple of decades back it was all ... could it
have been disease? could it have been global warming?... now many
scientists think that an asteroid strike is the most likely scenario.
This kind of presaging is not an unusual phenomenon. Some people had
great insights, but the means of testing their hypotheses did not exist
yet for them. That made it too easy for the ideas to be misapplied.
Although Velikovskys ideas seem crazy with
hindsight...