<HTML>Duncan wrote:
> hmm. Consider this - those that agree with Schoch: several
> best selling alternative authors (JAW et al dispute Schoch's
> dating to 5-7,000 BC but they all agree on an older Sphinx)
> and several million of their readers. Yet not one independent
> geologist has been named who will endorse what Schoch claims.
> Why is that?
I've covered that - imho they were interested in seeing the paper early.
> > I don't know - you tell me.....how can we test Schoch's
> > hypothesis? How can we test the Khafre built the Sphinx
> > hypothesis?
>
> On the basis of the available archaeological evidence. You
> can dismiss the direct attribution of the Sphinx with Khafre
> but at least there is some circumstantial evidence. Schoch
> doesn't have a bean.
Stadelmann thinks the Sphinx looks more like Khufu - on the basis of the headress iirc.
> Do people trust Schoch because he speaks from a position of
> authority (and if so why not trust the educated and
> established geologists that oppose him?) or because people
> want him to be right?
Cutting - but true !
John</HTML>
