Re: Bristol centaur stone

In message <1188897131.725350.305900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
tigger <aj-smith@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Ken - I read Watkins' book many years ago, and it is still on my
shelves. I am not a ley-line addict, but the idea he presented seems
to me to be a scientific one in the sense that it can be examined in
relation to physical evidence and either found to be supported by it,
or disproved. One hundred years have gone by during which sufficient
evidence, and its interpretation, should have been found one way or
another. This is the sense in which my enquiry is serious. So far,
the replies I have received have not met this criterion of
seriousness. I am asking for comment based on scientific scrutiny in
relation to empirical evidence, not mere opinion, prejudice, received
authority, or spurious metaphor.

There is no empirical evidence, merely lines drawn on a map to link a bunch
of churches, hills, prominent trees, anything he can think of that will
support his nonsense. Ley-lines are on a par with the evidence that proves
that aliens built the sphinx or Atlantis was in the Atlantic Ocean.

Tigger (becoming impatient)

Tough. Rather than waste our time, why not get your own copy of the
Ordinance Survey map and try to recreate some of these supposed ley-lines.
Notice particularly how many churches, hills, sacred springs and so on are
*not* on the line. That should show you why scientists and archaeologists
don't waste time on such nonsense.

Ken Down

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