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 can go along with
the qualification "in the modern sense," but we are
talking about a set of theories from the 1950s, and that makes the
modern sense anachronistic.
Ec