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Article #741Re: more Velikovsky
From: James W. Meritt
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 14:20
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 14:20
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In article <5236@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
(Mark William Hopkins) writes about Velikovsky:
>>> Never mind that the very same kind of hypothesis has been
>>> invoked to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs.
>>The dinosaur-extinction hypothesis, as I understand it, is that dust
>>raised by a large meteorite striking the earth caused climactic changes
>>that the dinosaurs couldn't survive.
>Velikovsky's hypothesis was that the climatic change brought about by the
>near collision caused the mass extinction at the end of the Ice Age ... the
>very same kind of hypothesis.
Don't we have a little problem with time scales here?
Moses a "little" time ago
Dinosaurs a "long" time ago
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Q.E.D.
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