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Re: Venus?

This is much the same as Carl Sagan's response to Velikovsky's proposals.
(I don't really want to give them the credence of calling them theories)

Joel R.

PS

Actually he did claim that people noticed the rotation of the earth
stopping. This was his explaination of the Joshua incident of the sun
standing still in the sky during the siege of some city Mesopotamia. (whose
famous name I have forgotten). Of course, he omitted other effects that
might have been noticable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edmiston, Mike [mailto:edmiston@BLUFFTON.EDU]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:51 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Venus?


(1) Venus, a terrestrial planet, came out of Jupiter, a gas planet?

(2) Venus was "new" as recently as the arrival of humans?

Either of the above would require that we totally throw away
our present
understanding of how stars and planets evolve.

(3) The earth stopped rotating for a while, then started
again? And this
happened within a day? And people didn't notice these accelerations?

Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Bluffton College
Bluffton, OH 45817
(419)-358-3270
edmiston@bluffton.edu