Ahm sorry Ernie .. but I'm afraid for me, Van Flandern just doesn't make my grade for spending too much effort in refuting what he had to say.
I mean I just can't get over
his quoted words on the Face of Mars …
Quote:
"We've shown conclusively that at least some of the artifacts on the surface of Mars were artificially produced, and the evidence indicates they were produced approximately 3.2 million years ago, which is when Planet V exploded. Mars was a moon of Planet V, and we speculate that the Builders created the artificial structures as theme parks and advertisements to catch the attention of space tourists from Planet V (much as we may do on our own Moon some day, when lunar tourism becomes prevalent), or perhaps they are museums of some kind.
Remember that the Face at Cydonia was located on the original equator of Mars. The Builder's civilization ended 3.2 million years ago. The evidence suggests that the explosion was anticipated, so the Builders may have departed their world, and it produced a massive flood, because Planet V was a water world. It is a coincidence that the face on Mars is hominid, like ours, and the earliest fossil record on Earth of hominids is the "Lucy" fossil from 3.2 million years ago. There have been some claims of earlier hominid fossils, but Lucy is the earliest that is definite. So I leave you with the thought that there may be a grain of truth in The War of the Worlds, with the twist that WE are the Martians.
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.. "a man's just gotta know his limitations" … and it would seem, Van Flandern didn't know his (or anyone else's).
Its difficult to accept anything he came up with, following the above stand.
As much as I try, its hard to take any of his more serious work, seriously !
Cheers