RE: Petersen's Book

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:29:31 -0700

>Scoff? No. Let me provide evidence against that idea. Why is loess
>primarily in the northern Hemisphere above 30 degrees? If loess is from
>the 4th dimension, why does the 4th dimension work so poorly at the equator
>where there is no loess and only a little loess exists in the southern
>hemisphere. What is it about the southern hemisphere that impedes the
>operation of the 4th dimension?
>

Janet: << Why in the world would you ask me these questions?>>

Because they are fundamental questions that can be explained by

Janet: <<We are considering here a bizarre phenomenon, the cause of which is obscure, and one which does not conform to reason or abide by the normal laws of physics. Therefore, I will not accept the burden of explaining any of these things.>>

How convenient. But you are avoiding the real issue here that there are very common explanations for these observations, something which the '4th dimension' cannot explain scientifically. So perhaps your 'bizarre phenomenon' is hardly that bizarre and the cause hardly that obscure. It only requires some reading of the actual knowledge-base on these issues.

I found the same with Morris's "Scientific creationism', very convincingly written but when one actually finds out what is really known and what is really the case, one quickly realizes that little remains of the arguments.