Posted by AF [AF] on April 08, 1999 at 06:30:36 {vxsc0.TBNkDjRmAxB/kMdaOt1gg/Zk}:
In Reply to: ***Mammoths, Flood -- for WW posted by 4 all replies on April 07, 1999 at 16:42:11:
Everything you described is from the pen of crackpots. Why do you keep reading such junk when you could be reading decent material?
: I suppose David Fasold, William Ryan (ark of noah), Bellamy, Posnansky and Velikovsky are all just pseudo-scientists and fundies who lie and exaggerate?
I don't know about the middle three, but Fasold is most certainly a fundy and wouldn't know a scientific fact if it bit him on the nose. Even most YEC's have rejected his nonsense. As for Velikovsky, Martin Gardner has correctly described him as the very model of a crank. Most of what V. has written is physically impossible, wrong, and has been thoroughly debunked. His junk is contradictory to the Bible. He was thoroughly dishonest in research because he selected only that from his sources that supported his claims and ignored the rest, just like other dishonest writers we know. I saw a TV program touting that nonsense about the sphinx being water-worn -- the evidence just isn't there.
Since it's quite obvious that you are not interested in science, but only in pseudoscience, I'll not waste any more time with you. Pearls to swine and all that.
AF