{"id":4209,"date":"2010-06-12T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/verschuur-gerrit-l\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:32:44","slug":"verschuur-gerrit-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/verschuur-gerrit-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Verschuur, Gerrit L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gerrit L.<\/strong><strong> V<\/strong><strong>erschuur<\/strong> <strong>(1937- )<\/strong> was born in South Africa and is now living in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Verschuur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28305\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Verschuur.jpg\" alt=\"Verschuur\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Verschuur.jpg 180w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Verschuur-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Lakeland, Tennessee,\u00a0working as a radio astronomer. He has written a book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\"><sup>579<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>\u00a0in which he\u00a0interprets many of the ancient catastrophe myths in a similar manner to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/alexander-tollmann\/\">Edith &amp; Alexander Tollmann<\/a> and Victor Clube &amp; Bill Napier. They all agree that catastrophic collisions with our planet occurred within the memory of man and are preserved in the legends of various cultures. These impacts have been seen as a possible cause of such events as the Biblical <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/deluge\/\">Deluge<\/a> and even the destruction of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Benny Peiser offers a review of Verschuur&#8217;s book<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/defendgaia.org\/bobk\/ccc\/cc031997.html\">http:\/\/defendgaia.org\/bobk\/ccc\/cc031997.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerrit L. Verschuur (1937- ) was born in South Africa and is now living in Lakeland, Tennessee,\u00a0working as a radio astronomer. He has written a book[579]\u00a0in which he\u00a0interprets many of the ancient catastrophe myths in a similar manner to Edith &amp; Alexander Tollmann and Victor Clube &amp; Bill Napier. They all agree that catastrophic collisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4024,159,4144,4143],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clube-napier","tag-deluge","tag-edith-alexander-tollmann","tag-gerrit-l-verschuur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64251,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/64251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}