Talk:Robert M. Schoch

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[edit] other geologists

"though mainstream Egyptology and numerous other geologists have rejected his analysis. "

First I dont see what does it matter what egyptologists think about a geologists theory, they arent his scientific peers to judge it. So Im rather interested what criticism does geology give to those analysis - do they think that his analysis was metodologically flawed, or included intentional misrepresentation of the evidence, or do they just have an alternative theory, but of similar support in evidence - in that case, its a equally valid theory.

-aryah

I guess somebody is going to have to read his book and assess his methods and his refutations of the other explanations. Here is an online paper by Colin Reader which examines Schoch's theory amongst others and which suggests he has ignored the other possible explanations. adamsan 00:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry Mr. Adamsan, but, Colin has told me personally that he supports Schoch's water weathering hypothesis. Colin merely disagrees with the amount of time it took and keeps his data within dynastic times. Another big problem that Colin has to contend with his total disregard of Schoch and Dobecki's subsurface seismic survey data, which gives Schoch's hypothesis a huge amount of credibility. What I find particularly interesting is that the geologist that Mark Lehner had with him at the 1991 GSA conference looked at Schoch's subsurface seismic data chart upside down. This is very telling, as he was supposed to be Lehner's star geologist to refute Schoch's work.

As to a numerous amount of geologists rejecting his work, you are misleading the visitors here. Unless, of course, you can produce names. Somewhere in Schoch's desk is a legal pad with 83 names of geologists that support his work and have given ther support if needed in the future. But, in all honesty, many geologists don't care if it's not 10,000 years old or older.

The only geologists that have attempted, though miserably, to refute Schoch's work are Alex Bordeaux, K. Lal Gauri and Harrell. What's really interesting about these three is that they work(ed) for the SCA at one time, which makes their refutations bias. Regardless, their rebuttals have been dealt with and refuted easily and quickly.

[edit] Great Sphinx of Giza

Why not a ref directly to the Giza sphinx? (Ronz 02:07, 23 May 2006 (UTC))