Re: WHY 15-BILLION YEARS = 6000 YEARS

From: John W Burgeson (burgytwo@juno.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 17:01:33 EDT

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    Hammond wrote: " BTW, thanks for finding yourself able to say something
    to me without being unnecessarily critical. Whether that is brilliance
    or tact I'm uncertain, but it certainly is rare."

    You must be referring to my exchanges with Vernon. I was cahstized
    privately by another on this list for poking fun at Vernon; I responded
    that my

    > >> Well, it means that the first people awoke after they had
    biologically
    > appeared 6,000 years ago and discovered
    > that a "15-billion year old world" had been instantly (on an
    Evolutionary
    > time scale) been "Created by God".. fossils, and all.>>
    >
    > Interesting. Does this mean you are in substantial agreement with
    Gosse's
    > claims in OMPHALOS?

    [Hammond]
      Well, you and I and Steven J. Gould and a lot of other
    enlightened people can appreciate a spellbinding preacher
    like Gosse who could spin a yarn that would entertain the
    hardest bitten heretic and yet preach the word of God.
    Certainly something a cloistered academic like myself
    could never do, but something you and SJG can approach.
      No, I'm afraid Gosse was more of a masterful preacher
    while I'm simply a physicist (after all he could get their
    attention and dazzle, entertain and confound them, I can't).

    GH:
    >
    > Or possibly with the claims of Jaynes in "THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS?"

    [Hammond]
      I talked to Julian Jaynes on the telephone a number of
    times in the early 1980's and certainly regret his passing
    a few years ago. He was a very enlightened and alert
    man, and made a significant contribution by developing
    public awareness of Sperrian Brain Lateralization with
    his book. In fact, my Psychometry theory has now confirmed
    that Sperry is one axis of the brain in Psychometry and
    does account for one axis of the BI/2P System. Again,
    experimental proof was not Jaynes' department.. guessing the
    right answer and getting the public's attention was more
    his line of work.
      He had a sense of humor too... in fact told me that he
    was having the book translated but had discovered that
    there was no word for "Bicameral" in German.

    >
    John Burgeson (Burgy)

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