Darwin had 2 propositions taken up by the cult of warm in their globaloneywarming nonsense which parades around dressed up as science. First, the earth's climate has never changed and there were no catastrophes which could interrupt post-Cambrian era, the 'evolution' of animals. Second, evolution takes billions of years to develop, so that all mammals for example, are descended from a common ancestor, say the redoubtable mouse. How comforting to know that humans come from rats. Or so the cult of evolution believes.

[Velikovsky] When, due to unconscious or undetected inner processes, a scientist excludes from scientific research certain areas of life – or broaches these only with disproportionately great restrictions, or even denies their existence or importance altogether from a scientific point of view, then science itself takes damage and its importance and credibility for society is greatly diminished. It is not without reason that for years we have been witnessing the troubling tendency of science to put itself less and less in the service of people.

Darwin was not only wrong, but in many ways, presaged the criminality of the cult of warm which is on lurid display today. There is no science to the idiotic idea that Co2, a trace chemical necessary for life, has any impact whatsoever on anything. No data, no models, no transparency, no sharing of methodologies, no true peer review – every aspect of 'science' has been raped by the cult of warming.

[Velikovsky] None of these contradictions between his diary observations and his views in his major work was raised by any of his opponents. It was not brought up against him that he had no academic position in a university, or that his only scholastic degree was that of a bachelor of theology, or that he omitted all footnotes to his sources, so that it was often impossible for a reader to check on the data; none of these shortcomings was ever mentioned by his critics. In addition to not heeding the solid finds of the still very young geological and paleontological sciences, Darwin, with all his entourage of acolytes, failed to learn of the work of his contemporary, Gregor Mendel, who evinced the basic laws of heredity and prepared the foundation for modern genetics.

Real science contradicted and still contradicts the cult of Darwin.

[Velikovsky] But our planet was involved in traffic accidents. The length of the year, of the month, and of the day have not remained unchanged since the beginning: they changed repeatedly in historical times when man was already perfectly literate and could leave records of the changes in writing. They are in various scripts, notably in the cuneiform. The data in cuneiform can be compared with the data in hieroglyphics, and both together can be compared with ancient calendars around the world, and with the sundials and water clocks of bygone days, now defunct not because of faulty construction, but because of changes in what they were designed to measure.

The earth has had many cycles of near destruction.

Like the majority of the cult of warming supporters, Darwin and his friends were not scientists. They certainly never practised the scientific method. Darwin was a seminarian drop out. His great influence was a lawyer, Charles Lyell. Darwinism, like Marxism, is materialist and dialectical junk. There is no science to any of Darwin's theories nor did he bother to include what he knew from first hand observation in South America – that geological catastrophe was the norm.

Critics were not met with scientific answers – just ad-hominem assassinations.

Darwin kept himself in the background, but occasionally instigated his front fighters to demolish a scientific opponent, usually among the clerics, by circumventing scientific argument and attacking the critic personally, as was the case with a French savant, St. Georges Mivart, who offered solid arguments against the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his correspondence, Darwin referred to Lamarck, a predecessor in the teaching of evolution, by then long dead, as the author of “that wretched book.” Darwin also completely disregarded the work of the founders of the science of geology – Sir Roderick Murchison, William Buckland and Adam Sedgwick – of the early nineteenth century, who gave the names, still in use today, to almost all the geological periods – Cambrian, Permian, Ordovician, Cretaceous, etc. He also circumvented by silence the founder of mammalian paleontology and ichthyology, Georges Cuvier. These founders of earth science produced consistent data showing that catastrophic events on a global scale had repeatedly interrupted the flow of natural history. Darwin followed Charles Lyell, who was a lawyer by education and who argued the theory of uniformity not as a savant, but as a barrister; it was his book which Darwin read when he traveled on the H.M.S. Beagle and which, as he acknowledged, was his Bible.

Velikovsky was not right about everything, but certainly about most things. His theories of catastrophic change are undoubtedly correct as proven by cosmology, geology and the fossil record. The Old Testament, along with every cultural artifact in writing and worship also confirms the theory of catastrophic change. Exodus, Isiah, the Egyptians, ancient Greeks, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Mayans, Eskimo's and more all discuss these cycles of doom and destruction. These celestial inspired devastation's lead directly to theology, stars worshipped as gods, and millennial eschatology of which Christ was a prophet. In sum it is true to say that Darwin is thus a mockery and so too by definition is much of the cult of evolution.

The problem of amnesia starts in the West with Aristotle and his obsession with order:

The Aristotelian negation of the traumas of the past, built into a philosophical system that covers many fields of human knowledge, became the rock on which the Alexandrian schools of physics, geometry and astronomy of Archimedes, Euclid and Claudius Ptolemy were built. The teaching of uniformitarianism (Lyell, Darwin) is a nineteenth-century version of Aristotelianism. And as much as the Church Scientific (Thomas Huxley’s expression) still follows in the steps of Darwin, it is still Aristotelian; and, in following Isaac Newton in the study of celestial space and the bodies populating it, the Church Scientific is again Aristotelian. And as much as the latter term is an equivalent of Scholasticism, the Middle Ages are not yet at their end.

So true. Humans crave order. They don't like theories of chaos.

Some gems from Velikovsky's book.

The ancients knew of these catastrophic cycles – they lived through them:

The study of catastrophic events that took place in historical times, as late as the beginning of the seventh century before the present era, and on a greater scale eight hundred years earlier, in the fifteenth century before the present era, these being the last of a series of such events – a study offered in Worlds in Collision – makes it abundantly clear that more than once our planet escaped destruction by a narrow margin. Further, in times past neither the size nor the form of the Earth’s orbit, nor the duration of its year and its seasons, nor the direction of its axis, nor the rate of rotation and thus the length of the day, were the same as at present. Thus fate willed that the Earth should survive – but whether it was by blind fate or by a protective Providence, we are, as I put it at the end of Earth in Upheaval, “descendants of survivors, themselves descendants of survivors.”

Pliny, the Roman naturalist of the first century, could tell of interplanetary discharges: “Heavenly fire is spit forth by the planet as crackling charcoal flies from a burning log.”16 Interplanetary thunderbolts, according to him, have been caused in the past by each of the three outer planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Seneca, the contemporary of Pliny, mentor of Nero and philosopher, wrote that the five visible planets are not the only stars with erratic courses, but merely the only ones of the class that have been observed. But innumerable others revolve in secret, unknown to us, either by the faintness of their light, or the situation of their orbit being such that they become visible only while they reach its extremities.

Some evidence:

In arctic regions in the past, coal was formed and corals grew; rhinoceroses, mammoths and buffalo left their bones in enormous profusion deep in the polar circle. In Africa, in China, in Brazil, in northern Europe and elsewhere, are animal conglomerates from tropical and polar regions – polar bears, arctic foxes, tropical snakes and crocodiles. Brown coal (lignite) is found to contain insect forms and plants thrown together from regions as far apart as Norway, Madagascar and Brazil. Mountain ridges rose to their present height in the age of man, even well-advanced man, and every exploring team returning from one of these major mountain chains – the Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Alps, the Andes – reported with astonishment this discovery of extreme recentness.

The ancients knew of the cycles of cataclysms and destruction emanating every 700 or 1000 years. Much of theology and cult practices were centered around this knowledge, all over the world.

The Sibylline Oracles, which originated in the same period [1rst century AD], occupied themselves mainly with the expected catastrophe. The day would come when “God, Whose dwelling is in the sky, shall roll up the heaven as a book is rolled, and the whole firmament in its varied forms shall fall on the divine earth and on the sea; and then shall flow a ceaseless cataract of raging fire and shall burn land and sea, and the firmament of heaven and the stars and creation itself it shall cast into one molten mass and clean dissolve. Then no more shall there be luminaries, twinkling orbs, no night, no dawn ... no spring, no summer, no winter, no autumn.” A comet would presage the end: “In the west a star shall shine, which they call a comet, a messenger to men of the sword, famine and death.” Entire cities would disappear in chasms opened up in the earth or be consumed by fire falling from heaven.7 In the apocryphal Book of Enoch it is said that in the final days “the years shall be shortened, and the moon shall alter her order and not appear in her time. ... And in those days the sun shall rise in the evening, and his great chariot shall journey to the west, causing distress, and shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light. And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order [prescribed] and these shall alter their orbits and tasks and not appear at the seasons prescribed for them.” Then Enoch saw a vision: “... the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to the earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.”

A lot of theology and geological evidence can be explained by inter-planetary discharges, near-misses, and changes in axis and rotations. The Eskimo's firmly believe that the end of the world will come when the poles flipped – which happened circa 1500 BC.

This book is a must read. Not everything Velikovsky discusses is true or supported, but much is. “[T]he thesis of this book, reveals how human thought and action have been shaped and molded by repressed collective memories of cosmic catastrophes that befell our ancestors as recently as one hundred generations ago.” Rather Freudian but accurate. It does appear that human culture has indeed forsaken its true past.