Quite frankly Alex, you have no leg to stand on...neither academically or debate wise. Anyone who has experience with debating and the tactics used will be able to see right through your little diatribe. Despite your evangelical proselytations to the contrary, what you present is nothing more than pseudoscience based on a incomplete and misguided understanding of not only the science you profess to know something about...plasma physics, but also of all the other science which you so clearly haven't a clue about.
In my position, it's damned if I do, damned if I don't. Damned if I strongly defend science because you will always have an "answer" to anything I say which will appeal to those that don't have the knowledge nor the access to the material that a person like myself has...and damned if I don't respond because it will look like I am backing down from the argument and you will appear vindicated. Well, all I can say is I would back the accumulated evidence of over 150 years of geological, astrophysical or any other branch of science, despite the fact that our knowledge is incomplete and still evolving itself, to the misguided and contentious nonsense that people such as yourself have this evangelical zeal to proclaim to all and sundry. I'll back the weight of hundreds of thousands of journal articles, research studies, actual empirical evidence and theoretical determinations over a handful of ranting "true believers" and a few scientist who have, despite the protestations to the contrary, never been able to prove their views in any conclusive manner. You can quote from all the studies you like Alex, but that doesn't alter the fact that those whom you so genuflect so reverently before have repeatedly failed to prove anything that they say is in fact correct. If they had that proof, they would be listened to. Now we're likely to hear about conspiracies to hide the truth from yourself. Honestly, you should really take a step back and listen to yourself. And you'll say I sound like a nutcase!!!!.
To anyone reading this, I invite you to take up a challenge of actually looking around for the information you need to understand these topics for yourself. If you can't find the right information, ask those who can to point you in the right direction. Ask those who have the mileage behind them on these topics. Yes, you can also goto these sites that the likes of Alex and such proclaim are the ones you should be listening to. It's upto you. But don't be fooled by seemingly persuasive arguments to their veracity or the misuse of science to try and convince you of a particular point of view or agenda they're pushing. I can hear Alex now berating me for doing exactly that, but I won't berate anyone. All I'll say in conclusion is if you want to find out about these topics, goto the actual sources of information and read up on the science, ask those who are working in and studying those fields for advice and information, and take anyone or anything pushing a particular agenda/philosophy (e.g.
thunderbolts.info,
The Electric Cosmos etc) with a huge grain of salt. They not what they appear to be.
Oh...addendum, about these geology professors....
Who are they....what are their names...list them here.
This ranting about appellations to authority and such is starting to wear a bit thin here, Alex, considering you have done exactly the same thing on numerous occasions (this being one of them) both here and elsewhere on the net, and your post of this link above has absolutely nothing to do with erosional processes driven by water. You can quote all you like about your silly obsession with electrics and plasmas. Most of the sites you have posted links to are not supported by any academic institution or anything of the like.