http://www.varchive.org/images/iv.jpg
He tried to explain this change via statements such as "The planets Saturn, Jupiter,
Venus and Mars, have moved upon different orbits within
human memory." and relating these changes to near miss encounters of the earth and other objects.

Pro: Biblical story of Joshua recounts a shower of large stones (Joshua 10:11) that occurred just before the day when the sun and moon stood still
Pro: A lot of junk consistent with the Biblical story above.
Pro: The following cultures used a calendar of 360 days for the year until the 7th century BC: Chinese, Chaldeans of the NeoBabylonian empire,  India, Persians, Egyptians, and Mayans. Most added five days to the calendar around the 7th century BC.
Pro: The circle, with 360 degrees may have been based on the "old" calendar.

Con: Between −708 July 17 and −686 March 23 there are about 265 months. During this interval, the accumulated error in the ephemeris of the moon cannot amount to more than about an hour, or 3600 seconds. Thus the length of the month cannot have changed by more than about 14 seconds in −686. Yet Velikovsky concludes that it changed by more than 6 days, from 36 days to 29½ days. The change that he claims is not consistent with any of the records before −686.
Big Con: Near misses between the Earth and other solar system objects would be observable in the current orbit of these objects.
Biggest Con: Common sense
Source(s):
http://hbar.phys.msu.ru/gorm/fomenko/newtvelk.htm
http://www.varchive.org/
Babylonians seemed to be dividing circles into 360 degrees independant of information above, see http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/59075.html


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