Re: Baugardner paper

Jim Bell (JamesScottBell@compuserve.com)
Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:08:02 -0500

Message text written by Glenn Morton:

<<Jim, did you read anything I wrote a few weeks ago? The statement is in
the
last of Baumgardner's papers in the 1994. It is in

S. A. Austin, J. R. Baumgardner, et al, "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A
Global Flood Model of Earth History," Proc. 3rd Int Conf. on Creationism,
1994, pp 609-621. That is where they write

"Gravitational potential energy released by the subduction of this
lithosphere is on the order of 10^28 J." p. 612>>

I tried to follow this punctuationless answer, but there is still no
reference to the paper I mentioned, which you've not read. And it is
readily apparent that Baumgardner DOES have the numbers available for "all
to see," your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.

<<Oh, since you were counting my references in the first paper, make a note

that the Austin, Baumgardner et al, cite 6 of my articles and a book I
wrote as a YEC. Even after I changed my perspective, they are still citing
my papers. What does that tell you about their flexibility?>>

The citation I saw (which you have not) was merely to an article you wrote
that had a proposed theory. You've moved on, but the mention was there
because it was one of a series of proposals by others that have been made
at one time or another. You can run from your past, Glenn, but you can't
hide. At one time you held a certain view, and that's all the reference was
for. Baumgardner is not saying you still hold this view, and I suspect it's
the same for Austin.

Jim

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