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• - Velikovsky's theory that some 3,500 years ago, and again 700 years later, the earth was affected by the appearance in the sky of a giant comet which eventually became the planet Venus.
  
• - Includes papers on the basis of his theories, prediction in science, the origin of diamonds, fallacies of radiocarbon dating, and other topics.
  
• - Velikovsky's look at cosmic catastrophes and the extinction of the mammoth.
  
• - A look at how Velikovsky's ideas stand after recent scientific discoveries
  
• - The journal that investigates the works and theories of Immanuel Velikovsky.
  
• - A very long quote from Charles Ginenthal's "Sagan and Velikovsky"
  
• - Sixty short extracts which give an overview of Velikovsky's book.
  
• - Critically examines several of Velikovsky's statements and claims made in Ages in Chaos.
  
• - "The essence of Velikovsky's unreasonableness lies in the fact that he does not provide scientific evidence for his most extravagant claims."
  
• - Excerpt from a book by Robert R. Newton, focusing on eclipses and Velikovsky's chronology.
  
• - Looks at the theory put forth in his 1950s text Worlds in Collision, and geologists' and physicists' reactions to it.