Immanuel Velikovsky.
Quota pars tanti nobis committitur?
Wow. For a few minutes it felt like I was reading Emmanuel Velakovsky again to please my geology teacher.
Now I have to lay down for awhile.
Immanuel Velikovsky.
Quota pars tanti nobis committitur?
I have just begun to do some snooping around some of his writings and at this point I don't know what to believe about the man. Was he psychic or psycho??? At first blush it would seem many of his theories have merit, but I'll need to read a lot more to make up my mind. The thing that even got me interested in his theories was the notion that the "scientific community" had all but tarred and feathered the man. I feel about the scientific community like I do academia; they seem to have an agenda at work.
FGS
Evidence rarely analyzed is introduced that no catastrophist researcher has ever presented, with hundreds of footnotes. For example, in the field of radiocarbon dating of extinction, research has never dealt with the phenomenon of the Seuss Effect, which introduced so much additional Carbon 12 and 13 to the atmosphere in those ancient times, that all dates pertaining to the extinction, derived by this method, should no longer be accepted. As another example, ice core research carried out in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as in Devil's Hole, Nevada, thoroughly discredits the Milankovitch theory as an explanation of Ice Ages. Iridium and other materials have been found in these ice cores that defy uniformitarian expectations. As Walter Broecker of the Lamont-Doherty Oceanographic Observatory states: "Climate Modelers should start preparing themselves for a world without Milankovitch."
http://www.velikovskian.com/backissu.htm
I’m glad my geology career was focused on discovering ore deposits...this stuff makes my eyes cross!