The first piece indicates he had detractors, but doesn't come near explaining why. Am I to infer from some of what I've read that his "enemies" were enemies because he was basing his writings on Biblical and other ancient texts? Or is there something more? This is all pretty confusing to a newbie to V.
Maybe it was political? Observer article dated 1948!
Did V write this piece?
Did V write this piece?
YES!
Am I to infer from some of what I've read that his "enemies" were enemies because he was basing his writings on Biblical and other ancient texts?
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I think you will find the answer to that question here:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/velikovsky-ghost.htm
News and Views from the Electric Universe
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The Australian philosopher, David Stove wrote later: "Newtonian physics is a guarantee against the occurrence of - just about anything disagreeable.... That this belief survived to some extent even up to the mid-20th century, is strongly suggested by the irrational hostility with which Immanuel Velikovsky's theories were received in 1950." That belief and the irrational hostility to his theories still survive. Velikovsky was effectively ambushed at the 1974 AAAS conference in San Francisco where he again explained to those who weren't paying attention the first time: "I was greatly surprised to find that astronomy, the queen of sciences, lives still in the pre-Faraday age, not even in the time of kerosene lamps, but of candles and oil." Nothing has changed; so powerful is the Newtonian ideology.
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=n2z18sez