Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:45:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got Milk?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Since the Lees are discussing pseudoscience, I'm
hoping one of them can identify the author and exact
title of a book my dad once told me about.  According
to my dad, there is a book with a title something
along the lines of "the day the earth stood still"
(and no I'm not referring to the movie) where a guy
argues that the real reason the walls of jericho fell
down is because the earth briefly stopped moving.

--cathy
--- Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> wrote:
> "Strong, Lee" wrote:
>
> >         Nevertheless, allow me to take your
> concerns about my credulity
> > seriously:  I do not believe in the "Shaverian"
> theory of underground
> > civilizations populated by dero and tero
> descendants of the Atlans and
> > Titans of Greek myth.  Nor do I equate
> pseduo-science with real science.
> > However, you appear to believe that pseudo-science
> is so radioactive that no
> > one can examine it without becoming hopelessly
> contaminated by it.  I
> > disagree.  I believe that the intelligent
> individual can read (or watch)
> > pseudo-science and derive entertainment value from
> it... much as the
> > intelligent individual can read (or watch) science
> fiction and derive
> > entertainment from it without concluding that
> Thomas J. Whitmore was
> > President of the United States in 1996.  And there
> is always the possibility
> > that a fringe belief will be validated and
> accepted by serious scientists.
> > There are multiple examples of this happening in
> almost all branches of real
> > science.  Shaverism is almost certainly not likely
> to be validated by real
> > science, but (with apologies to William
> Shakespeare) there are more things
> > in the world that are dreamed of by your small
> philosophy, Horatio.
> >
>                      Your
> > friend and sparring partner, Lee
>
> I'm with Lee on this one, as another fan of
> pseudoscientific trash.  I
> just happen to have a book next to the computer here
> called "The Hollow
> Earth", by Dr. Raymond Bernard, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. (I
> think I got all the
> periods in the right place.)  Front cover blurb:
> "Dr. Raymond Bernard,
> noted scholar and author of 'The Hollow Earth', says
> that they true home
> of the flying saucers is a huge underground world
> whose entrance is at
> the North Polar opening.  Dr. Bernard believes that
> in the hollow
> interior of the Earth lives a super-race which wants
> nothing to do with
> man on the surface.  They launched their flying
> saucers only after man
> threatened the world with A-bombs."  This is a
> mass-market paperback; I
> used to have a trade paperback.
>
> A quick look around the bookcases shows that some of
> my favorites
> ("Somebody Else is On The Moon", "Skycreatures --
> Living UFOs") have
> gone walkabout.  I need to do some serious sorting.
> On the other hand,
> there is something fitting about finding "The New
> Industrial State" next
> to "Shut Up and Eat Your Snowshoes".
>
> --
> Steve Smith
>  sgs at aginc.net
> Agincourt Computing
> http://www.aginc.net
> "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has
> to make sense."
>

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