On 17/09/2007, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/07, Ian Tresman ian2@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. Although Velikovskys ideas seem crazy with hindsight... well I'll skip the polemic.
This debate is so much more interesting than those on the BBS, because at the end of the day we produce something for the world to share! WP is great!
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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