{"id":4209,"date":"2010-06-12T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/verschuur-gerrit-l\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:42:18","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>(b. 1937)<\/strong> is a South African-born 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 human memory 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 (b. 1937) is a South African-born 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 with our planet occurred within human memory and are preserved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_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":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69666,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/69666"}],"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}]}}