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5.0 out of 5 stars
The reality Uniformitarians hate, Sep 26 2008
Without a doubt, no look into earth's geologic past would be complete without reading Velikovsky's works "Earth in Upheaval", and "Worlds in Collision" This book is an incredible comparison of ancient histories and ledgers that is being ignored and squashed by mainstream theories and media.
All three of his main works need to be read, and it's entirely possible I'm even confusing the works of each book with each other. But the Velikovsky trilogy ( Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval, and Ages in Chaos) is a must read all the same. These books all work together to prove things that current day evolutionists, geologists, cosmologists and the like are trying hard to hide.
This book gives the reader a view of recorded history that speaks of a frightfully cataclysmic events in the relatively recent past on the earth, which suggests that when Darwins penned the words speaking of a cataclysm that 'shook the very framework of the globe' he was unwittingly onto something more recent that he could have ever imagined. Velikovsky shows exactly when these events probably occured, but he also names a specific causes for these events transpiring around the globe. He shows how in recorded history many disasters from comets were far more common than today. This consequently reduces the age of the earth and destroys the "Orte Cloud" myth. No one seems to like this guy because he crushes so many pet theories.
Unfortunately in his other book Worlds in Collision he guesses wrong. He concludes that Venus came close enough to the earth to cause upheavals on the surface of the entire globe. Beleive it or not, that he guesses wrong does not in any way detract from his conclusions because he clearly shows something big is happening at the time. But he shows enough evidence to merit more digging to find the actual cause of the upheavals on the earth during the Exodus. Indeed he is actualy got a correct cause misplaced in time (or certainly location) and probably with the wrong "planet". But the fact that he figures it out at all is a huge groundwork for further research.
The problem with his Venus theory are surprisingly obvious making it clear some other factor is causing the destrucion on the globe. That or Venus was in a different position then he concludes.
The Venus theory suggest that the close proximity of Earth and Venus, caused an electrical chord between the two planets causing the upheavals, and he suggests that this was the cause of the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day leading the Israelites through the dessert. However if this were the case, the Isrealites would have been at the very center of the disasters occuring on the globe and would have been completely destroyed. So his guess had to be incorrect here. But he did figure out that a planet did come here long before anyone else, by checking ancient ledgers. This conclusion is still considered extreme, but research into other peoples work clearly shows the same conclusion being reached by other researchers such as Zecharia Sitchen. But by far Velikovsky's work is the most readable. A planet did come near earth during recorded histroy, something no one seems willing to consider. {all one has to realize is that the comets also altered these planets orbits enough to hide the previous orbits in the calculations} Velikovsky was far ahead of his time and people are still either trying to bury the guy or being forced to come to grips with his conclusions which as far as uniformitarianist eyes are concerned is all too frequently.
I strongly recommend the two books Earth In Upheaval as well as Worlds in Collision. This review addmittedly is something of a combining of both books into one reveiw, but they really are so similar and co-operative they might really be considered the same work part one and part two. Ages in Chaos is another sort of work that focusses on the chronological records which is something of a different field.
Because of these three works Velikovsky helped me reach and prove conclusions about ancient history few other works could facilitate.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting Read!, Jan 14 2004
This was not only an exciting read but it was bold courageous and I am sure blaspheme to the died in the wool adherent to evolution. In his book Immanuel Velikovsky deals with something that has always struck me strange, coal, how did it form, sometimes in layers fifty foot think. The lignite that I find around the area of my home in the Pacific Northwest is chalk full of fossil. Some so perfect I can clearly count the striations in the leaf formation. I have never been able to accept the explaination for coal and how it comes about. I believe Velikovsky has explained it perfectly to my satisfaction.
Many call his science flawed, yet today evolution is being disproved by the study of the stars and the youngness of the universe.
Why if evolution is taking place have we seen nothing in times of written history, only extinction.
I am a woodsman and experienced hunter, I know the woods are full of game and yet in my many years of hunting I have only found one skull of a young bear.
This I have never been able to understand, when there is so much condenced discovery of fossils in certain areas. What caused this? In this book Immanuel Velikovsky explains well beyond normal reasoning why.
In reveiws of this book many have said that the book is not science, I believe that the preponderance of evidence is always science and that theory is without merit when science proves it wrong. As I said earlier to the adherent of evolution this book is blaspheme, the reason is because evolution, is a religion, it is and has to be accepted by faith. The evolutionist is the adherent of the religion and is offended when his or her belief system is attacked...
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