[CarolinaGuitarman]

"It seems to me that the fact that he got out there with a contrarian explanation at a time when uniformitarianism reigned was just too radical for establishment thinkers."

But his claims were all garbage. They have not panned out. At all. He did no research, made no observations.

"No doubt he had a few wild and wooleys, but at least give the man credit for calling the fundamental mechanics what they were/are."

He got the mechanics completely wrong. What was he right about? Nothing.

"When you reflect on it, even hallowed science, in every epoch, essentially pulls their theories out of their butts, too - though highly educated butts they may be."

No, they do nothing of the sort. They make observations and test their claims against the evidence. Velikovsky did nothing of the sort. He made things up based on a crappy reading of ancient myths. He was a loon.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The history of science is nothing if it is not supposition after supposition being overturned. That means the scientists in the status quo crowd have their heads up their butts and like the atmosphere. Sorry to say, but 'Science' is nothing more than another human agency and prone to hubris the same as any other. Velikovsky promoted the idea of catastrophism in an era that rejected the premise. Even a guy in his backyard can see it today.

[Fred Nerks]

The Russian-born scholar was a friend and colleague of Albert Einstein, a student of Freud's first pupil Wilhelm Stekel, and Israel's first practicing psychoanalyst. Some of his writings appeared in Freud's Imago. In 1930 he published the first paper to suggest that epileptics would be characterized by abnormal encephalograms. He was the founder and editor of the scholarly publication, Scripta Universitatis, the physics and mathematics section being prepared by Einstein.

It was while researching a book on Freud and his heroes that Velikovsky first wondered about the catastrophes said to have accompanied the Hebrew Exodus, when fire and hailstones rained upon Egypt, earthquakes decimated the nation, and a pillar of fire and smoke moved in the sky. Biblical and other traditional Hebrew sources speak so vividly that Velikovsky began to wonder if some extraordinary natural event might have played a part in the Exodus.

To explore this possibility, Velikovsky sought out a corresponding account in ancient Egyptian records, finding a remarkable parallel in a papyrus kept at the University of Leyden Museum, called the Papyrus Ipuwer. The document contains the lamentations of an Egyptian sage in response to a great catastrophe overwhelming Egypt, when the rivers ran red, fire blazed in the sky, and pestilence ravaged the land.

Velikovsky also encountered surprising parallels in Babylonian and Assyrian clay tablets, Vedic poems, Chinese epics, and North American Indian, Maya, Aztec, and Peruvian legends. From these remarkably similar accounts, he constructed a thesis of celestial catastrophe. He concluded that a very large body -- apparently a "comet" -- passed close enough to Earth to violently perturb its axis, as global earthquakes, wind and falling stone decimated early civilizations.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/velikovsky-ghost.htm