<HTML>Anthony,
> Let's not deny geology the same right.
I'm not denying geology anything I'm just saying that Schoch contradicts everything else that we do know about Giza and the Sphinx. If he's right its up to him to prove it.
> 2. Schoch's observation about the erosion may well be
> correct... the date is what we are contending. Geologists
> are NOT climatologists, however, and although they may be
> happy to say the erosion is precipitation induced, they may
> NOT be familiar enough with the situation to say WHEN that
> precipitation occurred. Hence, you don't get a lot of
> concensus on dates. Most geologists I have known work in
> periods of hundreds of thousands of years. Debating one or
> two thousand here and there are completely inconsequential.
Fair point - geologists are usually more familiar in working with periods of thousands of years. I'm not saying Schoch is wrong or even that he can be proven to be wrong but if he is right why is there not one single geology professor in the entire world that agrees unequivocably with him?
> 3. I have seen JAW reply to the "where's the list" question,
> and his answer was good.
I saw that and thought otherwise:-).
I don't have it right off the top
> of my head, but it may have been something along the lines of
> a symposium with all the people and they asked if anybody
> disputed the markings as PI weathering, and nobody raised
> their hand. That, to me, says "concensus". I'll let you
> be the judge of that. (Please don't hold me to this... it's
> a vague memory from a post I read weeks and weeks ago).
The impression I get is that the list was developed on the basis of the number of geologists at the conference that showed an interest in the poster. JAW will not name them as he is in no position to.
> Lastly, Duncan, your argument would have precluded Galileo
> from being right. Just because a fact is inconvenient
> doesn't mean we can ignore it.
Am I ignoring it? We're discussing it remember. You can't prove Schoch is right you can only agree with his opinion. I'm just reminding anybody that may happen to agree with Schoch that the archaeological evidence does not in any way support his contention and that nobody in Geology directly endorses Schoch.
KRs,
Duncan</HTML>