Petersen's Book
Janet Miller (janetmiller@my-dejanews.com)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:48:03 -0700 I have just finished reading Petersen's "New
Insights to Antiquity" and am very favorably impressed
with it. Some of this material is over my head, the
Appendices notably, but most of it seems clear enough.
In particular, there is no doubt in my mind that Prof.
Mastropaolo was exactly correct; the author's evidence
in favor of an added dimension of space is indeed
unassailable.
In Chapter 8 Petersen builds upon this finding to
develop a remarkable new model for comets and their
mode of interaction with planets. His picture has many
interesting consequences. It explains the data from
olden times that led Velikovsky to think that Venus had
once been a comet; it accounts for the rings of Saturn;
it explains how ancient navigators were able to
determine longitude in the western hemishpere; it
explains how torque was once applied to the earth
causing its axis to tilt slightly and the length of the
year to change, and it accounts for the terrestrial
magnetic field as well.
On top of all that his picture gives a realistic mechanism
for the Great Flood; it accounts for the fossiliferous rocks, and
it identifies a fatal flaw in the radiometric dating systems. I
don't wonder that many of you are taken aback at this assault on
your established belief system, however you do yourselves no
credit by waxing hysterical, railing at irrelevancies, resorting
to ridicule and calling people names. If you are able to rebut
any of Petersen's points then please do so by all means, but I
have seen nothing that could pass for rebuttal thus far.
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