Bob Miller
Joel Duff wrote:
> >>Now, in regards to the "Moon Dust" debate, First, some historical
> >>perspective.
> >>I don't know where you were in 1969 when the Apollo Lander made it's
> >>historic
> >>touch down. But like the Kennedy Assassination and other life defining
> >>moments, I remember watching avidly the entire event, glued to my
> >>TV. I grew up when "mountains of dust" was widely accepted,
> >>and taught in science classes in school because it was a necessary
> >>implication from the basic presupposition that the solar system was
> >>billions of years old. I remember commentators talking to engineers and
> >>scientists at NASA about this very problem AND I remember distinctly
> >>that the amount of dust the Apollo astronauts were expected to encounter
> >>was a real concern.
> >>
> >>Now it may well be that since 1969, there is new information, that the
> >>old mechanism and assumptions proved faulty. But it is sheer historical
> >>revisionism to say that this was NOT a wide-spread assumption in
> >>the 1950's and 60's. Therefore, Whitcomb, Morris, et. al., who pointed out
> >>the fallacy in later books were not being deceptive, or selective in use
> >>of evidence, but simply responding to a strain of thought that proved
> >>fallacious on direct investigation.
>
> Regarding my previous e-mail, I have gotten some very very informative
> private e-mails that have been very helpful. I am well aware of the
> general claims and have read most of the pertinent stuff (Talk.origin FAQ
> etc..) some time ago but it is this above comment that I am wishing to get
> some specific comments on. Is Abshire's claim that, at least publically,
> it was widely accepted and taught in classes that there was mountains of
> dust and were there actually NASA scientists claiming this was a problem
> right up to the moment that the astronauts landed? I understand that
> scientists knew it wasn't likely a problem but what was the actual public
> perception of the situation. Do some of you have personal recollections of
> what Walter Conkrite (sp?) might have actually been saying those days on
> the evening news?
>
> Joel Duff