Re: Petersen's New Insights

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:39:02 -0500

At 10:38 PM 8/28/98 -0700, Joseph Mastropaolo wrote:
>I am a newcomer; an emeritus professor from CSU Long Beach with an
>interest in the creation-evolution discussion.
> I have just finished reading Petersen's book, New Insights to
>Antiquity, and found it captivating. In particular, his interpretation
>of the loess and its nodules in terms of another dimension of space
>seems unassailable.
> His four-dimensional model of comets is more obscure, but seems
>corroborated in unexpected places. For example, it gives an easy
>accounting for the rings of Saturn, and it also explains how ancient
>mariners were able to determine longitudes in the western hemisphere
>--as they are displayed on the Piri Re'is map. But most significantly,
>the model defines an unexpected earth-shaping mechanism that renders
>most of prevailing historical geology obsolete. Probably few
>uniformitarians will welcome these findings, but I anticipate that those
>who are persuaded by the Scriptures will have no difficulty with them.
> I am anxious to hear from anyone who has read his evidence.

I am currently reading the book and won't comment until I finish it. But I
would like to ask you a question. Since you find his work 'unassailable'
please list the articles and books you have read concerning the formation
of loess. I would expect that such a conclusion would be backed up by lots
of knowledge about the petrographic, sedimentologic features etc of loess.
Have you read anything on loess other than Petersen's work or the works of
other catastrophists like Velikovsky or Patten?
glenn

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