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A campaign was carried on to create the impression that the press of this country had rejected the book. Immanuel velikovsky s unconventional theories of the origin of the solar system have generated immense interest and bitter controversy. Kogans affection for her fathers memory, the more we learn about the state of venus, the more apparent it is that he was woefully offbase, as the criticisms in the wikipedia entries immanuel velikovsky and worlds in collision demonstrate. Jul 02, 2017 immanuel velikovsky describes the world catastrophically events in past history velikovsky goes way back even before the bible was written.
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