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To: VadeRetro; blam
I think Velikovsky just forwards that spark of inquisitiveness..one that see's so many pieces and tries to find a mechanism for them to join.

I don't go hard on the man..he's a Genius..if you consider his pulling together of mythology...forwarding of Academic construct and data...willing to let his work be parused by Einstein.

The V surely got things wrong..but He makes us consider this one point.

Man saw ,and was driven by the results of a catastrophe, that was world wide in scope....the Mythology is blatantly clear.

How can they slam Velikovsky....where in todays present think tank concept forwarded at SPACE.COM..is that the inner Solar System had a 5th planet between Mars and Jupiter..then fell into the Sun on elliptical decay.

This is the same community that slams Velikovsky as an astro mechanics failure...then conceeds that things exist.[Planets..comets]...and they perturb the other known planets..then they are destroyed.

Here's Velikovsky simply saying..."something passed near...the Earth got throttled"...

Velikovsky is a pioneer....Like the guys who surveyed North America.

Lots of mistakes in comparrison to our forwardings via satillite and computer..but still....they were first.

**** A freind sat in on a lecture from Velikovsky on the west coast...he passed away a few months later;

He spoke about interdimensional physics...this guy's mind was sharp..right to the end.

38 posted on 05/06/2003 9:48:28 AM PDT by Light Speed
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To: Light Speed
I don't go hard on the man..he's a Genius..

I found Worlds in Collision very convincing ... when I was 16. The problem with the way Velikovsky's work is bandied about on these threads, his name often mentioned in reverential tones, is that V got it spectacularly wrong. Thought-provoking, yes. Entertaining, yes. Nevertheless, he made a thought-provoking, entertaining mess of it.

Whatever his IQ may have been, he was a dilettante, almost always working outside of any area of personal expertise. It's all wrong. That's worth mentioning, too.

43 posted on 05/06/2003 11:17:06 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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