Scientia Press

Starting with his book Worlds in Collision (1950), MD and psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovsky adduced a wide range of evidence to buttress his theory of the origin of Venus.  Scientists vehemently rejected his claim that Venus had emerged as a comet from Jupiter, then approached Earth during the Bronze Age, causing catastrophes that appeared in the Bible and other ancient narratives and myths as well as leaving evidence in iconography, geology, archaeology, linguistics, and calendrics.  Although Velikovsky attracted a sizeable following, he was shut out of scientific journals and became the single most vilified scientist of all time.  After his death in 1979, the controversy–the greatest in planetary science since Copernicus and Galileo–faded into the background.  But gradually researchers accumulated an array of new evidence supporting his case.

Now chatbot Claude Haiku has revisited the controversy and asked whether it shows signs of scientific rejectionism.  After general discussion in points #1-10, in #11-20 human intelligence and AI collaborate on an evidence-grounded interdisciplinary solution–a Revised Venus Theory.

The famous Snake Goddess of ancient Crete has long attracted students of history and art. Elegant, risquée, enigmatic, she embodies the mystery and allure of Minoan civilization.

411-meter long Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is the world’s longest effigy monument.  Archaeological investigations have yielded conflicting results about its initial construction date, and various theories regarding its meaning have failed to gain traction.  But a Revised Venus Theory–one that modifies Immanuel Velikovsky’s theory that the planet Venus was originally a comet that approached the Earth and caused great devastation–neatly matches key characteristics of the Great Serpent Mound.

Recently, this Revised Venus Theory has gained additional credibility from a commonsensical explanation of how a comet-like Venus could have seemed to emerge from Jupiter as in ancient Hindu and Greek myths (Jupiter’s gravity pulled it from the outer solar system), including a simple, obvious reinterpretation of the Metis myth.  Much new evidence has also emerged.  And the theory has found powerful substantiation from a reinterpretation of the headdress of Queen Nefertari of Egypt, consort of Pharaoh Ramses II, in this image from Abu Simbel (Ramses II’s headdress appears to contain Mars with two moons and a tail, either borrowed from Venus in an encounter or from Martian dust stirred up by an encounter).