Posted by Al; [Aldurant] on April 07, 1999 at 21:01:45 {HTWDI6pmYgbNVk78PDhst74NX2uzuA}:
In Reply to: ***Mammoths, Flood -- for WW posted by 4 all replies on April 07, 1999 at 16:42:11:
:I suppose David Fasold, William Ryan (ark of noah), Bellamy, Posnansky and Velikovsky are all just pseudo-scientists and fundies who lie and exaggerate?
Well if we consider the altitude issue a sample of their work I suppose so. "The
highest altitude where people permanently reside is about 20,000 feet.A few people live at that elevation in the Andes Mountains in South America and in the Himilaya in Asia." Also, "Acclimitization can take two weeks or longer at 15,000
feet. At altitudes above fifteen thousand feet, acclimitization can fail to occur in some people."
This is from my kids 1990 World Book Encyclopedia that I pulled off the shelf when I saw your post. Look under "altitude". I've spent a
little time at 14,000 feet, fairly active, not a big deal.
As for the other business we need the reference, the original report from those who were there, the scientific journals, not some book they can slide past their knowledgeable
peers straight to their fundamentalist public. Then we need to figure all the areas that have never had a flood. Isn't it amazing how we explain away these and all the things that should have been destroyed by such a flood and were not.
You really need "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer. It is easy reading and you would have a much better understanding of actual science and pseudo-science and simple superstition.
Al