Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 27/08/2004 06:42, J. Raymond Kelley wrote:

> Uri Hurwitz wrote:
>
> > Brian Roberts <formoria AT carolina.rr.com> wrote, inter alia:
> > ".... your post has an elitist tone which is quite disturbing. 
> > Scholars are not a priesthood who can only be questioned seriously by 
> > other priests. We must not undervalue the perspective of the fresh 
> > eye, no matter whence it comes...."
> >
> > Now this point of view is quite refreshing. To follow it through why 
> > reject Valikovsky, isn't that too a bit elitist? And while we are at 
> > it, how about Nostradamus?
> >
> > Uri  
>
> Or Copernicus?  Or Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?
> If two is the magic number of examples ...
If you need three, try Wegener and his continental drift theory.


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