WELCOME BACK, DR. VELIKOVSKY

[Edwardo Conrado Conrado]

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In observance of Memorial Day, the late, great Immanuel Velikovsky
has temporarily returned from The Great Beyond this evening for
a seance to read from his masterpiece, "Worlds in Collision."
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"Hi. My name is Immanuel Velikovsky and I died a long time ago. And
back in 1950, when the Phillies won the pennant, my book was published
and . . .

ED CONRAD: Dr. Velikovsky, JUST read from your book, okay?
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DR. VELIKOVSKY" Hmmm! Well, okay!
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In an immense universe a little globe revolves around a star; it is
the third in the row -- Mercury, Venus, Earth -- of the planetary
family . . .
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ED CONRAD: Dr. Velikovsky, can you speak a little louder. Those
in the back can hardly hear you.
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DR. VELIKOVSKY: Thanks. Ed. I'll start over.
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IN AN IMMENSE UNIVERSE A LITTLE GLOBE REVOLVES AROUND
A STAR; IT IS THE THIRD IN THE THIRD IN A ROW . . .
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ED CONRAD: Dr. Velikovsky, Now you're too damn loud. Tone it down.
The neighbor's babies are sleeping . . .
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DR. VELIKOVSKY: Thanks, Ed. I'll do better this time.
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In an immense universe a little globe revolves around a star; it is
the third in the row -- Mercury, Venus, Earth -- of the planetary
family.

It is of a solid core covered over most of its surface with liquid,
and
it has a gaseous envelope. Living creatures fill the liquid; other
living creatures fly in the gas; and still others creep and walk upon
the ground on the bottom of the gaseous ocean.
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Man, a being of erect stature, thinks himself the prince of creation.
He felt like this long before he, by his own efforts, came to know how
to fly on wings of metal around the globe. He felt Godlike long before
he could talk to his fellow-man on the other side of the globe.
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Today he can see the microcosm in a drop of water and the elements in
the stars. He knows the laws governing the living cell with its
chromosomes, and the laws governing the macrocosm of the sun, moon,
planets and stars. He assumes that gravitation keeps the planetary
system together, man and beast on their planet, the sea within its
borders.
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For millions and millions of years, he maintains, the planets have
rolled along the same paths, and their moons around them, and man in
these eons has arisen from a one-cell infusorium all the long way up
to the ladder to his status of Homo sapiens.
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Is man's knowledge now nearly complete? Are only a few more steps
necessary to conquer the universe: to extract the energy of the atom
-- since these pages were written this has already been done -- to
cure cancer, to control genetics, to communicate with other planets
and learn if they have living creatures, too
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Here begins Homo ignoramus. He does not know what life is or how it
came to be and whether it originated form inorganic matter. He does
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KNOW know whether other planets of this sun or of other suns have life
on them, and if they have, whether the forms of life there are like
those around us, ourselves included.
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He does not know how this solar system came into being, although he
has built up a few hypotheses about it. He knows only that the solar
system was constructed billions of years ago.
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He does not know what this mysterious force of gravitation is that
holds him and his fellow man on the other side of the planet with
their feet on the ground, although he regards the phenomenon itself as
"the law of laws."
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He does not know what the earth looks like five miles under his feet.
He does not know how mountains came into existence or what caused the
emergence of the continents, although he builds hypotheses about
these, nor does he know from where oil came -- again hypotheses.
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He does not know why, only a short time ago, a thick glacial sheet
pressed upon most of Europe and North America, as he believes it did;
nor how palms could grow above the polar circle, nor how it came about
that the same fauna fill the inner lakes of the Old and the New
World.
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He does not know where the salt in the sea came from.
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Although man knows that he has lived on this planet for millions of
years, he finds a recorded history of only a few thousand years. And
even these few thousand years are not sufficiently well known.
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Why did the Bronze Age precede the Iron Age even though iron is more
widely distributed over the world and its manufacture is simpler than
that of the alloy of copper and tin?
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By what mechanical means were structures of immense blocks built on
the high mountains of the Andes?
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What caused the legend of the Flood to originate in all the countries
of the world? Is there any adequate meaning to the term
"antediluvian"? From what experiences grew the eschatological
pictures
of the end of the world?
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In this work, of which the present book is the first part, some of
these questions will be answered, but only at the cost of giving up
certain notions now regarded as sacred laws in science -- the millions
of years of the present constitution of the solar system and the
harmonious revolution of the earth -- with all their implications as
regards the theory of evolution . . ."
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INTERRUPTION: Mr. Conrad, Are you still here?
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ED CONRAD: Yes, Dr. Velikovsky!.
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IMMANUEL: My eyes are really tired and my feet are getting sore. So
I'm going to stop. Anyway, I think your friends should buy the damn
book. All they want is somethin' for nothing -- free. I'm NOT Bill
Gates, you know. After all. I have bills to pay and I've got to
eat . . ."
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MAN AS OLD AS COAL
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PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH
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"We can forgive a child who is afraid
of the dark. The real tragedy of life
is when men are afraid of the light."
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