[Rockingham]

True, and the new advance is to find a world-shaking geologic cataclysm that apparently connects with biblical events, which was Velikovsky's essential method. If the dating is established, it will have major consequences for early history by making a large category of supposed myths into datable events.

[SunkenCiv]

Well put.

Shoemaker by Levy
by David H. Levy
(pp 60-61)

In 1950 Worlds in Collision was published, a book that became very popular. Its author, Immanuel Velikovsky, inferred from historical facts and mythology that an unlikely series of comet impacts caused some biblical events, like the Egyptian plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. The details of Velikovsky's ideas were so strongly ridiculed that his theme that impacts have indeed affected the Earth, was clouded and lost.