Stephen J. Gould & Immanuel Velikovsky - Essays In the Continuing Velikovsky Affair

About this book... Before we begin to look at the details of Stephen J. Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky Essays in the Continuing Velikovsky Affair, its intellectual and historical backgrounds must be clearly established. We are dealing, of course, with the Immanuel Velikovsky story, which the unfamiliar reader will grasp more easily if it is seen as falling into four separate areas: 1. Velikovsky's highly revolutionary, catastrophic theories, 2. the Velikovsky Affair, which is the sordid and vicious response to those ideas by mainstream, American science, 3. the impressive amount of evidence, especially from the space probes, which has accumulated in mainstream science since 1950 in support of Velikovsky's theories and predictions, and 4. catastrophist science, or research by Velikovsky's supporters in a number of fields, published in hundreds of scholarly articles, which constitutes a parallel universe to mainstream, traditional, uniformitarian science.