Randall Carlson

[R.K. Locke]

RKL: I woke up at 3am thinking I shouldn't have called them liars. I am glad to see they cite Bretz at the place Drew most kindly pointed out. I wouldn't have made that far. I think they misuse Bretz by saying that he said it was one flood, as opposed to many. His theory was preliminary. A geologist friend who met Bretz said he didn't follow up on this idea. He went on to other things leaving other geologists to do the research. Saying the current accepted explanations are compromises is just not fair. If there were to be a compromise, it would be to combine the Bretz flooding events with the comet idea. I am agnostic about that. At sometime, I will watch and read more stuff on these guys. Thanks for putting this up.

Finally, i can't express enough how amazing the Eastern Washington landscape is. If you have the time and can afford it, buy the geo-location guidebooks and take a tour. It is amazing. BTW I have stood at Dry Falls many times and gaped in wonder at it.

FWIW, I am not totally sold on their theory, but then I am not a geologist or archaeologist, so I am largely having to trust my instincts on this one. I'm quite impressed by the variety of evidence that they have put together, but I would also be interested to see it rigorously challenged by other scholars and researchers. An honest, Socratic debate around this subject would be fascinating, I think.