RE: Petersen's New Insights, Pim van Meurs drops out

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:19:07 -0700

I wrote: <<If you have the book, look at
Plates 32-40.>>

Pim van Meurs wrote: <<Wow, I was wrong, they are actually two
dimensional.>>

Joseph: <<I regret that you no longer want to carry on a serious discussion and have decided to drop out of the discussion of New Insights to Antiquity by Richard Petersen.>>

I regret to see once again that you are avoiding answering the tough questions and avoiding the answers provided to you by Glenn. Since you claim to adhere to the scientific methods of discussion, would ackowledgement of these questions and mechanisms not be the first step ? And perhaps you could as well make an effort to explain the spatial variation in snails (which is interestingly enough similar to the spatial variation of living snails in the area ?), and tell us how using the scientific method this 4th dimension can be studied ? The latter one is especially of interest to me given the fact that the website and the preface of the book appear to be suggesting that one has to leave the 'Laboratory' to find the explanations. May I suggest that 'miracles' do not make for very good scientific evidence.

As far as I have seen there has been little discussion on your part on the objections by Glenn and a certain avoidance of the tougher questions posed by Glenn and me.

Let the real discussion begin, it's about time.... Let's see if you are as serious about it as you appear to be implying in your response above.