Velikovsky nut butter (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 25, 2012, 18:40 (4389 days ago) @ dhw

Although today few conventional astronomers agree with some of his hypotheses about the recent interaction among Mars, Venus and Earth, close encounters of Earth and comets or stars are now openly discussed. In fact, most of the recent geological conferences have been dominated by discussions of worldwide catastrophes which caused mass extinctions of almost all life -- perhaps 96 percent of the species."-His theory about Venus is obviously wacky. We know of asteroid-dinosaur death and that the Earth is threatened by near-Earth asteroids. This is solid science.
But the fact that we are discussing these possible catastrophies does not validate Velikovsky and the weird theories the book refutes.