Re: Gravity (posted for R. Plotnick)

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From: "Roy E. Plotnick" <plotnick@Plotnick.geol.uic.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:11:03 -0500
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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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