- Steve.
At 11:48 AM 9/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
> 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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