(August 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm)Sami_23 Wrote:(August 10, 2012 at 11:13 pm)padraic Wrote: Addendum; To be fair, I did some Googling. I got bored after the first two. Make up your own minds. Sounds a lot like crackpottery of the first degree to me. Can't wait for Min's opinion (assuming he can be bothered)Barry fell a bad Archaologist? I can't comment on that because I don't really know about his work (except for muslim discovering america stuff). That same link seems to suggest he is an influential character.
@Minimalist, fair enough. I don't know how to argue against that because I don't really know that much about Mr. Fell. What do you think of Jerald Dirks and Dr. Robert Dickson Crane?
According to Wikipedia"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Fell
Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell) (June 6, 1917 – April 21, 1994) was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. His primary research was on starfish and sea urchins.
He was not an archaeologist, bad or otherwise.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
