Velikovsky, Immanuel Geology, Alternative Anomalies and Alternative Science

Velikovsky, Immanuel

About the life, work, and theories of Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979), who developed and published a set of theories about earth's history that explained many historical events and events in geologic history as caused by interactions with other planets. A psychiatrist by training, Velikovsky did not base his claims on astronomical evidence and scientific inference or argument. Instead, he argued on the basis of ancient cosmological myths from places as disparate as India and China, Greece and Rome, Assyria and Sumer.

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• - The journal that investigates the works and theories of Immanuel Velikovsky.
  
• - Excerpt from a book by Robert R. Newton, focusing on eclipses and Velikovsky's chronology.
  
• - A very long quote from Charles Ginenthal's "Sagan and Velikovsky"
  
• - Sixty short extracts which give an overview of Velikovsky's book.
  
• - Includes papers on the basis of his theories, prediction in science, the origin of diamonds, fallacies of radiocarbon dating, and other topics.
  
• - Velikovsky's look at cosmic catastrophes and the extinction of the mammoth.
  
• - "The essence of Velikovsky's unreasonableness lies in the fact that he does not provide scientific evidence for his most extravagant claims."
  
• - Critically examines several of Velikovsky's statements and claims made in Ages in Chaos.
  
• - Velikovsky's theory that some 3,500 years ago, and again 700 years later, the earth was affected by the appearance in the sky of a giant comet which eventually became the planet Venus.
  
• - Looks at the theory put forth in his 1950s text Worlds in Collision, and geologists' and physicists' reactions to it.
  
• - A look at how Velikovsky's ideas stand after recent scientific discoveries
  
  

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