Come on Glenn we have cookie monsters from every country.
Some even contribute here
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Morton" <glenn.morton@btinternet.com>
To: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:32 AM
Subject: RE: The Mother of Concordisms
> George wrote about the "discovery" of Noah's ark from South Africa.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> >Behalf Of george murphy
> >Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:27 AM
>
> > The 30 April issue of _Weekly World News_ (pp.24-25_) announces
> >that Noah's Ark has been seen on Mars by the Ross-Waterhaus Observatory
> >in Johannesburg.
>
> South Africa has a renown history of such "discoveries". Consider this
from
> the history of 19th century astronomy.
>
> ÏPublic interest in the possibility of lunar life climaxed in the late
> summer of 1835 with a series of popular articles by Richard Locke that
were
> published in the New York Sun. Locke reported that the British astronomer
> Sir John Herschel (son of William Herschel), while observing the moon at
the
> Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, had discover bizarre, winged, batlike
> creatures swarming over it. Locke wrote, ÎCertainly they were human
beings.
> They averaged four feet in height, were covered, except on the face with
> short-glossy, copper-coloured hair, and had wings composed of a thin
> membrane.
> ÏThe circulation of the Sun soared as New Yorkers devoured the news of
> these exotic lunar beings. A womenÌs club in Massachusetts was so
impressed
> that they wrote to Herschel asking how to contact the lunar bat-men so
that
> they could convert them to Christianity. The story rapidly spread to
Europe,
> where it became the subject of a heated debate sponsored by the Academy of
> Sciences in Paris.
> ÏHerschel, a hemisphere away at the time, was unaware of this
> idiotic story
> when it first appeared. As soon as news of it reached him, he denied it
> furiously, but it was too late. This cruel and pointless hoax had a
> devastating effect on his career. In 1839 he wrote to a friend, ÎI have
made
> my mind to consider my astronomical career as terminated.Ó Christopher
Wills
> and Jeffrey Bada, The Spark of Life, (Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing,
> 2001), p. 219-220
>
> glenn
>
> see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
> for lots of creation/evolution information
> anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
> personal stories of struggle
>
>
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