Manifestations of Venus

[Tom Stanton]

> You will get yourself laughed off stage at any conventional academic
> symposium for saying this, but it really does look as if we are dealing
> with material that dates back to before Noah's flood, which I am sure
> was a historical fact best explained by the theories of Immanuel
> Velikovsky.

Whoa, dude! I was with you on the goddess stuff & biblical translation
business, but Velikovsky??? You're right, the symposium just became
the Komedy Kassle!

> At one time a vast and highly evolved civilization on Earth
> that was almost entirely destroyed by cosmic cataclysms that occurred
> within the historical memory of man.

At last, Atlantis! 

[clip Graves stuff]

> As you may
> know, there is some reason to believe that a planet called Vulcan once
> existed in what is now the asteroid belt.

It may also have been a moon, or stray material that never became a
planet. Dunno if astronemers dubbed it Vulcan...

> Velikovsky claimed (to the
> best of my memory) that a comet appeared out of the Red Spot in Jupiter,
> nearly colliding with Mars and coming so close to the Earth that a
> cosmic spark passed between the object and Earth. It settled into an
> orbit around the sun and became the planet Venus. If there are any
> Velikovsky experts here, I hope they will correct this scheme, but let
> us accept it in broad outline for the sake of the argument.

Yikes! Let's not. Velikovsky is right up there with the other pseudo-
scientists. No evidence, no support, but a whopping good story. 
Comets don't emerge from the red spot, caroom off planets like pool
balls, 
and then turn into another planet.

Sorry, not gonna bite on this one...