From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@calweb.com)
Date: Wed Jul 09 1997 - 01:55:39 MDT
> "Consider next the high temperature of Venus (480C). As Dr.
> Roger Wescott and others have pointed out, Dr. Velikovsky
> predicted a temperature in this range for Venus when
> astronomical orthodoxy believed that planet much, much colder.
> Sagan tries to avoid giving Dr. Velikovsky credit for this
> confirmation of his model...
That's no more a "confirmation of his model" than the fact that
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were found in a Mars rock are
confirmation of 50s sci-fi films. Velikofsky was a complete idiot,
made hundreds of blind guesses, and one of them turned out right.
He deserves as much "credit" for that as tomorrow's lottery winner
deserves for his foresight.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:44:34 MST