“...He was a man Waaaay ahead of his time.”
You may enjoy this essay:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/velikovsky-ghost.htm
Thanks for the link.
More and more evidence is piling up that substantiates his theories.
Cataclysm!: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C. by D.S. Allan and J.B. Delair (two secular British scientists) has twenty chapters with about 400 footnotes from academic journals for each chapter.
The evidence is overwhelming that, indeed, worlds were in collision about 11,000 years ago, and that what has been interpreted as the effect of ice age glacier scouring is actually the result of an overturning of the planet with the oceans washing over the land (the origin of the Flood stories ubiquitous in every culture).
This was precipitated by a supernova which knocked loose a moon from Jupiter, which hit the planet between Jupiter and Mars, and sent a meteor storm which scarred Mars and an aesteroid that came close enough to flip earth.
That is their interpretation of the myths, but the physical evidence they have of very differently configured land masses ( and the origin of the Atlantis myth) is compelling.