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Ed Conrad wrote:

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>During a seance late last night -- an annual tradition to celebrate
>Halloween -- we were again able to reach the late, great Dr. Immanuel
>Velikovsky way out in the Great Beyond. He said he'll be tied up on
>Halloween, so agreed to hold the seance a bit earlier this year.
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>(Granted, Dr. Velikovsky is still a bit bitter about how today's
>pseudoscientists' grandpas had persecuted his hallowed name,
>and how today's batch are following in their disgusting footsteps.)
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>Well, anyway, Dr. Velikovsky once again agreed to read part of the
>first chapter of his masterpiece, "Worlds in Collision," written more
>than a half-century ago.
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>So let's get right to it... Will one of you pseudos from talk.origins
>please turn out the light (CLICK!)
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>Okay, Dr. Velikovsky, the floor is your's.
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>Hmm! Hmm! Okay!
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>Worlds in Collision, 'er
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>WORLDS IN COLLISION
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>Well, here goes!
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>In a immense universe a little globe revolves around...
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>Dr. Velikovsky! Sorry to interrupt! Can you PLEASE speak
>a little louder. Some of these pseudos are hard of hearing.
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>SURE, HOW'S THIS, ED?
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>Uh, well, I think you're TOO loud now, Immanuel.
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>How's this?
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>Good. Real good!
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>Are you ready?
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>We can't wait!
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>Well, here goes...
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>My name is Immanuel Velikovsky and I died a long time ago,
>and back in 1950, when the Phillies won the pennant, my book
>was published and ..
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>Dr. Velikovsky, JUST read from your book, okay? The pseudos
>don't have all day... 'er, night.
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>Hmmm! Well, okay! Hope I don't flub any lines.
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>In an immense universe a little globe revolves around a star;
>it is the third in the row -- Mercury, Venus, Earth -- of the
>planetary family.
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>It is of a solid core covered over most of its surface with liquid,
>and it has a gaseous envelope. Living creatures fill the liquid;
>other living creatures fly in the gas; and still others creep and walk
>upon the ground on the bottom of the gaseous ocean.
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>Man, a being of erect stature, thinks himself the prince of creation.
>He felt like this long before he, by his own efforts, came to know how
>to fly on wings of metal around the globe. He felt godlike long before
>he could talk to his fellow-man on the other side of the globe.
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>Today he can see the microcosm in a drop and the elements in the
>stars. He knows the laws governing the living cell with its
>chromosomes, and the laws governing the macrocosm of the sun,
>moon, planets and stars.
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>He assumes that gravitation keeps the planetary system together,
>man and beast on their planet, the sea within its borders.
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>For millions and millions of years, he maintains, the planets have
>rolled along the same paths, and their moons around them, and man
>in these eons has arisen from a one-cell infusorium all the long way
>up to the ladder to his status of Homo sapiens.
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>Is man's knowledge now nearly complete? Are only a few more steps
>necessary to conquer the universe: to extract the energy of the atom
>-- since these pages were written this has already been done -- to
>cure cancer, to control genetics, to communicate with other planets
>and learn if they have living creatures, too
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>Here begins Homo ignoramus. He does not know what life is or how it
>came to be and whether it originated form inorganic matter.
>He does not know whether other planets of this sun or of other suns
>have life on them, and if they have, whether the forms of life there
>are like those around us, ourselves included.
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>He does not know how this solar system came into being, although he
>has built up a few hypotheses about it. He knows only that the solar
>system was constructed billions of years ago.
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>He does not know what this mysterious force of gravitation is that
>holds him and his fellow man on the other side of the planet with
>their feet on the ground, although he regards the phenomenon itself
>as "the law of laws."
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>He does not know what the earth looks like five miles under his feet.
>He does not know how mountains came into existence or what caused
>the emergence of the continents, although he builds hypotheses about
>these, nor does he know from where oil came -- again hypotheses.
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>He does not know why, only a short time ago, a  thick glacial sheet
>pressed upon most of Europe and North America, as he believes it did;
>nor how palms could grow above the polar circle, nor how it came about
>that the same fauna fill the inner lakes of the Old and the New
>World.
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>He does not know where the salt in the sea came from.
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>Although man knows that he has lived on this planet for millions of
>years, he finds a recorded history of only a few thousand years. And
>even these few thousand years are not sufficiently well known.
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>Why did the Bronze Age precede the Iron Age even though iron is more
>widely distributed over the world and its manufacture is simpler than
>that of the alloy of copper and tin?
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>By what mechanical means were structures of immense blocks built
>on the high mountains of the Andes?
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>What caused the legend of the Flood to originate in all the countries
>of the world? Is there any adequate meaning to the term
>"antediluvian"? From what experiences grew the eschatological pictures
>of the end of the world?
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>In this work, of which the present book is the first part, some of
>these questions will be answered, but only at the cost of giving up
>certain notions now regarded as sacred laws in science -- the millions
>of years of the present constitution of the solar system and the
>harmonious revolution of the earth -- with all their implications as
>regards the theory of evolution ...
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>Hey, Ed, Sorry! Gotta go! Perhaps I can finish my book
>sometime soon. Gee, I hope the pseudos liked it so far.
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>Oh, I'm sure they didn't, Dr. Velikovsky, although they may dislike
>the following photo even more. Damn shame you never saw it
>while you were alive. You weren't exaggerating when you
>mentioned "an immense universe."
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>>INTELLIGENT DESIGNER, IS THIS REALLY, REALLY YOU?
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>This is the Hubble Telescope's 2004 ultra view photo, one
>that was taken of a totally blackened sky as seen through
>an EIGHT-FOOT-STRAW. Result: galaxies upon galaxies
>upon galaxies, meaning that our universe is far bigger than
>we can even begin to fathom.
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>http://www.spacedaily.com/images/hubble-ultradeep-desk-1024.jpg
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>The anthros, their interests SO vested 
>And Poor Truth for  too long molested
>Their deceit and deception 
>Near the point of perfection 
>If it were my call, they'd ALL be arrested 
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>PETRIFIED BONES EMBEDDED IN SLATE FROM COAL VEINS
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The only problem with Velokosky is that he SAID    GRAVITY  did NOT  
EXIST  out by Jupiter.
          not friendly to science.
               josephus