Re: Gravity (posted for R. Plotnick)

[N.MacLeod@xxxxxxxxx (N. MacLeod)]

Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 05:42:51 -0400
From: ax123@freenet.carleton.ca (Dave Sangster)
To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Gravity (posted for R. Plotnick)
Reply-To: ax123@freenet.carleton.ca
Status: O

I am trying to determine what possible correlation the is between the
level of magnetism and evolution. I would appreciate it if you could
supply any references on the subject. To date I have not been able to
locate any info dating later than 1966.

Thank you.


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>From: "Roy E. Plotnick" <plotnick@Plotnick.geol.uic.edu>
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:11:03 -0500
>To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Gravity
>Mime-Version: 1.0
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>Well, I did reply.  I thanked the writer for his interest; pointed out that
>the concept of changing graviational fields both violates uniformitarianism and
>would produce universe-wide effects that there is no evidence for; and that his
>understanding of evolutionary history was incorrect.  I also referred him to
>several books on the history of life.  As his being a closet Velikovskyite:
>wouldn't they like the idea of cometary impact?  As for using me to get a
>quote, I wish I was so influential! -Roy Plotnick.
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>Roy E. Plotnick
>Geological Sciences
>University of Illinois at Chicago
>845 W. Taylor St.
>Chicago, IL 60607
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>plotnick@plotnick.geol.uic.edu
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