November 7, 2001 The Reality of Ancient Catastrophism About fifty years ago, a Russian psychiatrist named Immanuel Velikovsky wrote a book, "Worlds in Collision." He suggested that much of the earliest history of mankind was deeply affected by catastrophic cosmic events. His suggestions seemed outrageous: that Venus is a comet that was ejected from Jupiter, and that its flybys past the Earth created the tidal forces that explained the Parting of the Red Sea and other miraculous incidents recorded in the Bible. Velikovsky's theories had one big problem: they assumed a highly unlikely coincidence. Evolutionists claim the Solar System ...