loveritas Wrote:
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> Hi Dr Troglodyte,
>
> Osburn may have wished to find correspondences of
> the Kinglist with the Bible timeline. Garnier in
> "The Worship of the Dead" does the same. The
> criticism of the work of Velikovsky centres around
> a similar paradigm. I have even done it myself.
>
> However, I am not sure that this equates to
> deliberate deception, as has been imputed to
> Vyse.
>


Hello loveritas:

I agree; I envision no deception, deliberate or otherwise. Osburn’s position was merely indicative of the sensibilities exhibited by certain learned men of those times, in a vein similar to that of the Morton brothers, Smyth, Taylor and a host of other contemporary writers. The full value of their Work is realized through their observations, and not of their filtered suppositions.


> I am surprised that you use Colavito as a source.
> Does he always give a balanced viewpoint? I feel
> that he has an agenda.
>
> lover


I don’t believe Mr. Colavito has ever been accused of having a “balanced viewpoint”. I regard him as an unapologetic skeptic; I do, however, believe him to be an astute researcher who rarely, if ever, makes definitive declarations without substantial foundation.



Dr. Troglodyte