Re: Debunking Pseudoscience

You loved saying that to me! Just to rub it in!

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: "'Michael Roberts'" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>; "'gordon brown'"
<gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:51 PM
Subject: RE: Debunking Pseudoscience

> Eat your heart out Michael, I have a copy of The New Geology. It isn't
> hard
> to find the flaw for a geologist. He advocates what he says is the
> onionskin
> theory (something I don't think any geologist ever advocated). In this
> view, the sediments all over the world which lie next to crystalline
> basement were supposedly all deposited at the same time. Such a view is
> codswallop and destroys any value in paleontology.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Michael Roberts
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:23 PM
>> To: gordon brown; asa@calvin.edu
>> Subject: Re: Debunking Pseudoscience
>>
>> All of McCready Price's books are amazing, with their apparent erudition
>> and
>> fatal flaws. Gardner dealt with them in his various books. TGF took on
>> the
>> mantle and it all has a life of its own, despite being cranky
>> pseudoscience.
>>
>> I have several of Price's work and a photocopy of The New Geology- all
>> 700
>> pages of it and it appears at first sight like any geology text of the
>> 1920s. One has to root to find the fatal flaws, which are akin to YEC on
>> geology.
>>
>> BTW John Blanchard D.D. from Pacific International University in MO is
>> giving a talk of YEC this Saturday in a village between Lancaster and
>> Preston. Usual stuff - circular reasoning from fossils etc. But can
>> someone
>> show me what the status of the PIU is?
>>
>> Michael
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "gordon brown" <gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu>
>> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:17 PM
>> Subject: Debunking Pseudoscience
>>
>>
>> > Today I received the latest issue of the Notices of the American
>> > Mathematical Society. It featured an interview with Martin Gardner, who
>> is
>> > well known for his 25 years as author of the "Mathematical Games"
>> > column
>> > in Scientific American magazine, but it turns out that he has also
>> written
>> > books debunking pseudoscience such as Scientology and Uri Geller.
>> >
>> > What he said that especially caught my interest was his answer to the
>> > interviewer's question "How did you get interested in debunking
>> > pseudoscience?"
>> >
>> > He said that at some time during his childhood he read George McCready
>> > Price's "The New Geology" and was convinced by it until he took a
>> geology
>> > course at the University of Chicago and understood where Price went
>> wrong.
>> > He now describes Price's book as "one of the great crank works of all
>> > time".
>> >
>> > Gordon Brown
>> > Department of Mathematics
>> > University of Colorado
>> > Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>> >
>> >
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 16 03:04:45 2005