[RightWhale]

Immanuel Velikovsky presents lots of information in his various popular books about natural causes of the events of the Exodus. While the date of the Exodus is uncertain at best, many of the phenomena listed could be attributed to a bombardment of meteorites. Velikovsky goes on to postulate that the huge deposits of crude oil in the region could have been from a rain of oil coming at the same time and from the same source.

[Judith Anne]

Agreed. Velikovsky had some amazing ideas, far ahead of his time....

[plusone]

Yes, the more digging we do into the past, the more evidence we unearth to suppport at least Velikovsky's claim of ancient destruction, if not his theory about its cause. Interesting stuff...

[roadcat]

I first read Immanuel Velikovsky's books in the 1960's. He was pretty much viewed as a crackpot by the scientific community in the 1940's and 1950's for these ideas. But over the past 50 years much of what he postulated has been vindicated, especially in discoveries by our space programs. Someday history will accord him his rightful place as a genius far ahead of his time. I also remember reading about the raining oil from the sky. I think we'll find a lot of the proof on Venus once we start exploring it.