I like Rupert Sheldrake's quote about the big bang theory of the universe. “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation.”

We are learning that the Earth is subjected to repeated cycles of catastrophes. This also matches the fossil record. Species appear, show little to no morphological change. Then they go away. Then new species appear.

This cycle also seemed to be understood by many ancient cultures. The Greeks, the Vedic culture, the Hopi. The Norse, in Raganrok. The esoteric as well. Fulcanelli and the Great Cross at Hendaye.

Immanuel Velikovsky wrote a book Mankind in Amnesia.

The subject that Immanuel Velikovsky has chosen is the psychological condition and case history of the human race. Virtually every aspect of human behavior, every pattern in human history, and every article of human belief, if examined and illuminated in the light of the thesis of this book, reveals how human thought and action have been shaped and molded by repressed collective memories of cosmic catastrophes that befell our ancestors as recently as one hundred generations ago…

Charles Darwin's phyletic gradualism, and Geology's "Doctrine of Uniformity," have lulled us to sleep, and led us down a blind pathway about our real story on this planet.