Thread: Penguin India to destroy all copies of "The Hindus" due to religious pressure
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Old 02-26-2014, 01:10 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
Ah, Immanuel Velikovsky. The precursor to Erich Von Daniken. Velikovsky! Whose scientific credentials are second only to the researchers at Answers in Genesis. Velikovsky! Without whose writings we would never have known that 17,000 years ago Jupiter pooped out the planet we know today as Venus.

Sheesh.
Velikovsky's book was nonsense, but attempting to prevent its publication gave it a "legitimacy" that it didn't deserve. He didn't "challenge" science, he just put out nonsense.
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