Yes, but he was an amusing idiot. Didn't you enjoy the bit about Venus passing close to Earth, and hydrocarbons being pulled from the venuvian atmosphere to our planet, being somehow converted to carbohydrates, and then falling as "manna from heaven" to feed Moses and the Israelites?
(I got a good chuckle out of it...)
That was highly amusing! Asimov had some fun with his theories in one of his non-fiction books.