Velikovsky discusses the multiple floods - the parting of the Red Sea being the most prominent one he references - along with their probable cause (near passby of Venus). All of which is recent enough in documented world history to not need 13,000 years of silliness. :)
Yes, and now that he is dead anyone can say anything about the theory. What is funny is that NatGeo actually published this article with so many tidbits like:
“Bretz was making arguments, and no one was going into the field to see anything,” Baker said. “They were just countering his arguments with theory.” And because scientists are first and foremost human beings, they’re loathe to change their theories or their minds because of mere data.
...But that might just compound the error, because it neglects the fact that scientists almost always favor their own theories over others’, and rarely are those theories completely right....
...The authorities in the field were invested in a particular theory, and contrary evidence was dismissed without an adequate hearing...
But yeah that was the 20th century, good thing for us that we can sleep like babies in the 21st century - you know, since all of our scientist are 100% accurate and honest now.