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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: amateurs (Ted Holden gives up completely!)
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 08:56:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 08:56:45 1985
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> Jeff Sonntag writes, in a reply which very clearly shows how much of my
> article he actually read, and hence the rather severe limits of his
> attention span:
> 
(he quotes my entire article, without comments)
>     
>     As I stated in the article, it's the amateurs who have these problems with
> the laws of physics...  I probably should have included ASPIRING amateurs like
> Sonntag.  

    "Only amatuers have these problems believing in theories whose underpinnings
are inconsistant with the laws of physics."  What a moron.

>I certainly haven't given up my belief in gravity;  the moon causes
> tides, Venus which is larger than the moon once caused all hell to break loose
> on this planet (as can be read in "Worlds in Collision), and Saturn, even in
> it's present state, is much larger than either.  I am simply leaving open the
> possibility that forces OTHER than gravity itself may have played a role in 
> the state of affairs, gravity-wise, which prevailed on this planet prior to
> the flood.

    Not only do you leave open the possibility, your theory *requires* the 
assumption that there are other ways of having lighter gravity which are not
as yet even hinted at by current physics, and yet were put into effect by
naturalistic processes in the distant past.  Not really a very *small* 
assumption, is it, Ted? 
> 
>     Ever heard of electricity, Sonntag?  It lives in the little holes you
> see around the baseboards of houses.......

     Well, that was his entire article.  Two ad hominen attacks, and an
obviously incorrect assertion (that he merely 'leaves open the possibility'
that gravity was magically lighter in the past).  Apparently he's given up
on the idea of explaining *how* gravity was magically lighter.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    "What would Captain Kirk say?"