Laird Scranton Wrote:
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> O Captain wrote:
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> How does any of this validate Velikovsky?
>
> As it becomes more and more difficult to justify
> the perspective that these comets were created at
> the time of the formation of the universe, an
> obvious alternative is that they formed by a
> different process. Also, as comments quoted in the
> article indicate, it would be hard to imagine the
> coma oxygen having survived for such a long period
> of time, which implies that the comets may have
> formed much more recently.
>
> Carl Sagan noted that Velikovsky's scenario for
> the origin of Venus should also have created many
> smaller bodies. From many different perspectives
> (including this new one), comets have the right
> attributes to constitute some of those smaller
> bodies.
>
> - Laird


Laird, thank you for your reply. Do you share Velikovsky's understanding that Venus was a comet until rather recently?