RE: Petersen's New Insights, reply to Glenn Morton

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:13:31 -0700

>To Glenn Morton:
>
> Surely you understand that one cannot reasonably offer uniformitarian
>theory in defense of uniformitarian geology. Your burden is to explain
>nature in terms of uniformitarian theory, and that burden is indeed
>yours, not mine. You might begin by explaining the objects that
>Petersen shows in his plates 32 to 40.

Glenn:: <<I did. I note that 1. water carries dissolved calcium carbonate. 2. It can
enter an empty shell. 3. It then evaporates. 4. It deposits a layer of
calcium carbonate. >>

Come on, things could not possibly be that simple. What about this 4th dimension stuff ? After all we are well aware that the 4th dimension carefully deposits snails according to expected patterns, in loess only. We are very well aware that the deposits are likely to be unique to the 4th dimension and we all know that hurricanes and ligthning can only be explained by the Nordic Gods. The mighty Thor riding his chariot across the skies and swinging his mighty hammer.

Glenn: <<There is nothing more to explain. I still can't figure out your reasoning
as to why snails HAVE to come from the 4th dimension. >>

Details...

Joseph:: Does evidence mean anything to you? does the fact that we observe loess
forming today with no 4th dimenstional involvement mean anything to you?
glenn>>

THe invasion of the 4th dimension continues. Next: Can we observe the 4th dimension in actions, depositing snails carefully in the Loess according to the expected distribution ?
Of course we do have 4 dimensions, although one appears to be temporal and not spatial. So 4 dimensions quite well could explain the observations. Joseph might be on to something. All we need is: "TIME".

G'night