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If the topics described in the book raise your curiousity, I will suggest to read the exquisite description and critical analysis of this book by Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain: Its popular appeal had led me to assume it must at least have some drive or scholarly strength despite its ultimately wrongheaded conclusions. However, I do think we are able to deduce a theme from different texts across the world, from different , independent cultures. Please try again later. Also, the Mariner 2 probe was erroneously reported in the popular press to have discovered hydrocarbons on Venus. Mar 23, Albert Meier rated it really liked it. Though there are no statements against publication of the book, two of the three letters contain strong criticisms on some points of science.

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In his science book Broca's Brain: This view holds that the present is the key to the past, and that all things continue colliskon they were from the beginning of the world. Customers who viewed this item also viewed.

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In preparing my Skeptic article "Velikovsky at 50" I corresponded velikosvky 25 leading contemporary scientists who have played a significant role in the development of this "new catastrophism" to ask what influence, if any, Velikovsky had on their work. Tantalizing clues to be sure.

I prefer worlss recent "phylogenetic" explanation for this: This failure to recognize the worldz of comets and asteroids means that it is reasonable to go back to Velikovsky and delete all the physically impossible un about Venus and Mars passing close to the earth. The Old Testament was his primary source, and I knew the Bible and its historical background well enough to wonder if it was really possible to read Amos and Isaiah as talking about a disastrous near-collision between Earth and Mars.

Former Velikovsky disciple Leroy Ellenberger notes that. The publication of Worlds in Collision, inshook the scientific world and the furor has not yet abated. The proponent of the novel idea must provide very good reasons for rejecting established principles. Jul 27, Ian Bar rated it really liked it. If a myth fits his hypotheses, he accepts it and interprets it to his liking.

Worlds in Collision

NASA put out an erroneous woelds in that said Mariner 2 had found evidence of hydrocarbon clouds. Critical reaction and controversy The plausibility of the theory was summarily rejected by the physics community, as the cosmic chain of events proposed by Velikovsky was regarded as simply contradicting the basic laws of physics.

He proposed that electromagnetic forces colision be the cause of the movements of the planets, although such forces between astronomical bodies are known to be essentially zero. In all this, atmospheres of both Venus and Earth changed a bit exchanging gassesand Venus while still being a comet, poured ccollision and "naphta" from the sky while on Earth a cataclysmic event killed the vast majority of life human included on the planet, and only few survived.

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The essence of Velikovsky's unreasonableness lies in the fact that he does not provide scientific evidence for his most extravagant claims. Colllision internal heat developed by the earth i the scorching gases of the comet were in themselves sufficient to make the vermin of the earth propagate at a very feverish rate. It doesn't surprise me that this book was shunned by the scientific community. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Worlds in Collision in Macmillan's Catalogues.

In this book, author claims an explanation of the biblical events of Exodus; which include the Earth stan Well, the fact that this book of pseudo-science has respectable ratings and fairly positive reviews here, it appalls me. See also ancient astronautsapopheniaand Zecharia Sitchin.

Nice story but just that, even basic knowledge of history and science is enough to see lack of any serious scientific merit. Broca's Brain New York: See all 3 customer reviews.

It is words slog from any but the most dedicated historian or antiquarianism, which I am not. The Conduct of Science New Jersey: When Velikovsky does offer scientific knowledge, it enlightens the reader as to how some concepts in science are merely accepted without the knowledge of the history applied to them.

The "true scientists" who object to its conjecture must realize that the only thing science can do is guess. More recently, the absence of supporting material in ice core studies such as the Greenland Dye-3 and Vostok coresbristlecone pine tree ring dataSwedish clay varvesand many hundreds of cores taken from ocean and lake sediments from all over the world has ruled out any basis for the proposition of a global catastrophe of the proposed dimension within the Late Holocene age.

Researching critics of this book and looking at the overwhelming amount of energy against this book is very disproportionate to the material and ideas brought forth. Though there are no statements against publication of the book, two of the three letters contain strong criticisms on some points of science.

In chronological order of their reading they are:.

He doesn't only ignore the ijmanuel between electric and gravitational forces, he also seems to be plainly ignorant of basic atomic structure, where diffused electron clouds are found instead of imagined discrete electrons. Thorndike, head of the physics department at Queens College.