Customer Review 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 1.0 out of 5 stars Velikovsky Deserves No Credence, February 29, 2012 By c.leroy This review is from: The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited (Paperback) With all that we have learned in the Space Age about Venus, this book has no reason to exist as a justification for Velikovsky's errant notions about the recent history of the Solar System. The large, deep impact craters on Venus imaged by the Magellan mission in 1990 show the crust is too thick to have been molten only 3500 years ago as Velikovsky claimed. If Venus had ever approached Earth close enough to exchange atmospheres, as Velikovsky claimed, the Moon would have been loosed; but the Moon is still here on a nearly circular, resonant orbit that betrays no sign of it motion having been disrupted as recently as Velikovsky claimed. Furthermore, there is no sign on Earth for the red dust from Venus that supposedly caused 40 years of darkness at Exodus, not in the world's glaciers and ice caps, not on the ocean bottoms, and not even in the Sea of Galilee. Before deciding to purchase this book, the prospective buyer is encouraged to read the entries in Wikipedia for "Immanuel Velikovsky" and "Worlds in Collision", the better to get a grasp on all the real evidence that disproves Velikovsky's long-discredited ideas, followed by reading the entries for "Bill Napier", "Victor Clube", and "Mike Baillie", whose research on "coherent catastrophism", involving Earth's episodic, energetic interaction with Comet Encke and the Taurid meteor streams during the past 10,000 years or so, provides a real, astronomically feasible, comet-based model for the sky-combat myths that motivated Velikovsky's erroneous, planet-based speculations. The Taurid-Encke complex is now inactive, but it was last threatening in the 6th century A.D., according to Patrick McCafferty and Mike Baillie in "The Celtic Gods: Comets in Irish Mythology" (2005), which contradicts Velikovsky's saying that Earth has been safe from sky-borne cataclysms since the last interaction with Mars in 687 B.C. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | Permalink The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited 1591431395 Laird Scranton Bear & Company The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited Books Velikovsky Deserves No Credence With all that we have learned in the Space Age about Venus, this book has no reason to exist as a justification for Velikovsky's errant notions about the recent history of the Solar System. The large, deep impact craters on Venus imaged by the Magellan mission in 1990 show the crust is too thick to have been molten only 3500 years ago as Velikovsky claimed. If Venus had ever approached Earth close enough to exchange atmospheres, as Velikovsky claimed, the Moon would have been loosed; but the Moon is still here on a nearly circular, resonant orbit that betrays no sign of it motion having been disrupted as recently as Velikovsky claimed. Furthermore, there is no sign on Earth for the red dust from Venus that supposedly caused 40 years of darkness at Exodus, not in the world's glaciers and ice caps, not on the ocean bottoms, and not even in the Sea of Galilee. Before deciding to purchase this book, the prospective buyer is encouraged to read the entries in Wikipedia for "Immanuel Velikovsky" and "Worlds in Collision", the better to get a grasp on all the real evidence that disproves Velikovsky's long-discredited ideas, followed by reading the entries for "Bill Napier", "Victor Clube", and "Mike Baillie", whose research on "coherent catastrophism", involving Earth's episodic, energetic interaction with Comet Encke and the Taurid meteor streams during the past 10,000 years or so, provides a real, astronomically feasible, comet-based model for the sky-combat myths that motivated Velikovsky's erroneous, planet-based speculations. The Taurid-Encke complex is now inactive, but it was last threatening in the 6th century A.D., according to Patrick McCafferty and Mike Baillie in "The Celtic Gods: Comets in Irish Mythology" (2005), which contradicts Velikovsky's saying that Earth has been safe from sky-borne cataclysms since the last interaction with Mars in 687 B.C. c.leroy February 29, 2012 * Overall: 1.0 out of 5 stars 5 Showing 1-2 of 2 posts in this discussion Initial post: Mar 2, 2012 2:49:18 AM PST Laura Haskell says: I think there are way too many people scared of what Velikovsky had to say. Every time I read someone summarily dismiss him, they don't have any real proof. Velikovsky was right about so many things---the tail of Venus, which has been found to exist, SOHO having taken pictures of it. He was right about the temperature, the rotation, the composition. But no one ever wants to talk about that. They want to attack him on fronts they have no basis in fact for. Man in Amnesia makes perfect sense for a people that don't WANT to remember what it was like when there was a war in the heavens. We already have enough proof from the Consciousness Project to grasp that there is an underlying universal consciousness to humanity---so why not a group amnesia? Only people that are scared and still mentally cowering in caves refuse to believe Velikosky, or at least give him more than a contemptuous dismissal. The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited In reply to an earlier post on Mar 2, 2012 10:03:57 AM PST c.leroy says: Ms. Haskell misses the point. The "tail of Venus" identified by SOHO is NOT visible to the naked eye as ordinary comet tails are. The simple truth is that there is no physical evidence on Earth that is commensurate with the destruction Velikovsky described in "Worlds in Collision". For example, there is no evidence for the oceans over-riding the continents and islands when our rotation slowed during an encounter with Venus. The true "war in the heavens" experienced by our ancestors was the one discussed by British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier between Earth and the Taurid-Encke Complex during the past 10,000 years or so, not between Earth and the planets Venus and Mars within the past 3500 years imagined by Velikovsky. The Wikipedia entry for "Worlds in Collision" presents many evidence-based criticisms.