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Did you forget something? Only one of the linked articles was written by an "amateur" scientist. The other is written by a professional geologist. You have at any rate failed to address the texts of their refutations, which is that your polonium halos aren't from polonium, and that's only the most basic difficulty.

Here they are again. Note the intro to the first article:

Professional geologist Tom Bailleul takes a second look at Gentry's claimed polonium haloes, arguing that there is no good evidence they are the result of polonium decay as opposed to any other radioactive isotope, or even that they are caused by radioactivity at all. Gentry is taken to task for selective use of evidence, faulty experiment design, mistakes in geology and physics, and unscientific principles of investigation and argument style.

That doesn't sound very good. It also looks as though you're pretending you can't see this material at all, just looking the other way and ranting in the same manner in which you walked onto the thread.

To: Havoc

Just calling evolution a theory is an overstatement . . . only an idea // mood // feeling - - - an ideology === perverse oddity ! ! !

70 posted on 01/21/2003 10:12 AM PST by f.Christian (Orcs of the world: Take note and beware.)

To: f.Christian

Conjecture masquarading as science might be more appropos - I agree.

71 posted on 01/21/2003 12:04 PM PST by Havoc ((Evolution is a theory, Creationism is God's word, ID is science, Sanka is coffee))

Main Entry: 1con·jec·ture
Pronunciation: k&n-'jek-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conjectura, from conjectus, past participle of conicere, literally, to throw together, from com- + jacere to throw -- more at JET
Date: 14th century
1 obsolete a : interpretation of omens b : SUPPOSITION
2 a : inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved