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Originally Posted by Byrd
As to why some are popularized, it really depends on the culture that the information is inserted into. I remember when Velikovsky's books came out in the late 60's and early 70's, and because the climate was one of "expand the consciousness" and so forth, they gained wider acceptance than they would have if they'd come out in the 1950's.
They died back with the rise of the sciences in the 1970's... lately, with the milennium hysteria, the y2K hysterian, the religious hysteria and the denial of science (and problems in the education system) AND the rise of Internet and the changing of the Hero myth, we see these things resurface. I think it's because our Hero myth has gone astray. We would all like to be heroes but we don't recognize what it takes to be a hero. So many dream of the Earth gone awry and destruction all around and themselves emerging as the Champion of the People.
(at least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it!)
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Another fine theory brought down by mundane facts!
Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision was published in 1950. The (sympathetic) link says it was the number one bestseller in the nation.
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Does science always "rule" in favor of the "truth" - what does "winning theories" mean.
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This would depend on what tools it takes to measure the theory.
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Something objective, perhaps?
