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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (84580)8/3/2000 9:34:13 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I think catastrophism may be making a comeback. Velikovsky had his astronomy wrong, but does an admirable job in attempting to reconstruct ancient history and archeology. No one else has adequately explained the so-called First Dark Age that occurred in the 13th century BC.

The Velikovsky affair is interesting because of the vehemence Big Science used in attacking him. Scientists got together and threatened MacMillan with a boycott of their textbooks if they published any more of Velikovsky's popular works. They forced MacMillan to cease publication of a book that was on the best seller list. The leader of the inquisition was Harlow Shipley, Harvard astronomer and otherwise respectable scientist. Carl Sagan's "debate" with him was disgraceful, too. He wisecracked through it, never confronted anything Velikovsky said, and used his verbal skills to ridicule him. Even Sagan's admirers said he acted shamefully.
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