from holosc
what a bunch of crap

Since then [since Velikovsky's days] sceptical scholars have shown
Velikovsky's historical
perspective of cataclysmic events to be wrong. 

!!!

However, his basic premise
of planetary encounters has been confirmed and the details fleshed out to
an extraordinary degree. 

Several pioneering researchers in this new field
now agree that awe-inspiring planetary encounters did occur in
pre-history. 

To the most ancient civilizations they were a culturally
defining memory. 

They were the inspiration for pyramids, megaliths,
statues, totems and sacred rock art. 

The survivors of global upheaval felt
it imperative that the memory be preserved and passed down faithfully to
future generations in the expectation that the "gods" would return. 

!!!

The
memorialization took the form of architecture, ritual and story to
re-enact the apocalyptic power of the planetary gods over human destiny.

Such a catastrophic beginning explains why civilization appeared like a
thunderclap out of nowhere. Unfortunately, with no reference points in the
present behavior of the planets, the stories lost their real meaning. This
short explanation may seem contrived until the wealth of supporting
evidence can be presented. However, it highlights the crucial distinction
between the planetary catastrophism of the Electric Universe and that of
neo-catastrophists who attempt to explain the evidence for planetary
encounters in terms of cometary phenomena. Modern comets simply do not fit
the descriptions from the past. Nor can they account for abundant evidence
of fresh looking planetary cratering and scarring. Besides, in an Electric
Universe comets are not the apocalyptic threat to the Earth imaginatively
portrayed by artists. Such pictures are entirely fanciful because a comet
would be disrupted electrically by a cosmic thunderbolt before it hit the
Earth. The only visible evidence remaining would be an electric arc crater
like Meteor Crater in Arizona.

-- thornhill site