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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: more Velikovsky
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Date: 17 Mar 88 14:20:39 GMT
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In article <5236@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
 (Mark William Hopkins) writes about Velikovsky:
>>>	 Never mind that the very same kind of hypothesis has been 
>>>	 invoked to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs.
>>The dinosaur-extinction hypothesis, as I understand it, is that dust
>>raised by a large meteorite striking the earth caused climactic changes
>>that the dinosaurs couldn't survive.
>Velikovsky's hypothesis was that the climatic change brought about by the
>near collision caused the mass extinction at the end of the Ice Age ... the
>very same kind of hypothesis.


Don't we have a little problem with time scales here?
Moses a "little" time ago 
Dinosaurs a "long" time ago










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