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“a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.”
― Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision

“The abode of the Midianites is to be looked for near the place where the city of Medina is today. This name Medina may likely be a remnant of the habitation of the Midianites there. The identification of Midian and Medina may be further substantiated by the name of the Midianite priest, Jethro. The old Arabian name of Medina is Yathrib.”
― Immanuel Velikovsky

“Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?" ~ Immanuel Velikovsky”
― Immanuel Velikovsky

“I identify it (i.e., Kadesh Barnea) with Mecca.”
― Immanuel Velikovsky

“The 'astronomical chronology' is a framework of the scientific structure of Egyptian history and, consequently, of the history of the ancient world. . . .
The specialists in astronomical chronology made their calculations and announced their expert results. The specialists in pottery took the results of the specialists in Sothic computation as a firm base on which to build. Specialists in the history of religion, philology, and history in general followed. Difficulties were swept away. . . .The readers of cuneiform borrow dates from the readers of hieroglyphics; the Bible exegetes from the archaeologist; the historians from all of them. Thus there came into existence an elaborate entrenched system that bears very little resemblance to the real past. . . . The Sothic scheme of ancient chronology of the world is built on this chronology.”
― Immanuel Velikovsky, Peoples of the Sea : A Reconstruction of Ancient History-A Continuation of the Ages in Chaos Series