-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Clarke [mailto:jdac@alphalink.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:56 PM
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: direct observation (was ASA Perspective)
Hi Norm
Jonathan wrote:
Several things here.
Ignoring the use of the word "indoctrinated" with respect to the vast body
of
diverse evidence for an old earth, may I remind you that until the
circumnavigation by Magellan's crew begun in 1521 there was no direct
evidence
that the earth was round. Until then it was all indirect and inferential.
* But, apparently quite convincing...the circumference was calculated by the
ancients to an amazing degree of accuracy, well before the Dark Ages, or, I
believe, the Christian Era.
Nobody directly observed the earth as a sphere until the flight of Gemini 12
(Aldrin and Lovell) in 1966.
> And, of course, the survey in question was done, assumable, on the
scientists of today, not of yesteryear. And I would wager more had
first-handedly circumnavigated the globe, or known someone who had, than had
personally established the age of the earth.
Atoms, magnetic fields, and X-rays cannot be sensed directly by human
beings,
and are known only through indirect evidence. Shall we denounce those who
have
been indoctrinated into belief in these entities?
> We should be the last to denounce the believe of Anything than
"...cannot be sensed directly by human beings..."
Norm
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