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To: medved, capitan_refugio
Sure thing, medved. Here's the Google results. The sites are all fringe theories - Saturn and other catastrophes. Not a serious scientific paper or work in the bunch.

Anyway, I liked this one:
It is with a profound sense of ambivalence that I write this article, taking a critical stance towards the historical reconstruction of Gunnar Heinsohn. Not only do I regard Gunnar as a personal friend; he has long been a supporter of Aeon, first as a contributor of numerous articles and also through featured appearances at various symposia. Yet the suspicion has been building for some time now that all is not well with Dr. Heinsohn's handling of the ancient sources. Since Aeon has taken an active role in publicizing Heinsohn's researches, it follows that we have a certain responsibility to keep our readers informed of recent developments and, where necessary, point out problems as they come to our attention.

The current article examines Heinsohn's attempted identification of Hammurabi with Darius, arguably the most novel and controversial claim in a historical reconstruction remarkable for its radical nature.

That's from a catastrophism site! THEY don't even beleive Heinsohn!! :P

127 posted on 03/07/2002 12:01:13 PM PST by cracker
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To: cracker
It would take an intelligent person several months worth of study to get on top of the controversies involving Heinsohn and you're claiming to have done that in the last ten minutes...

Anybody wanting to get caught up on this one would be best off finding copies of Emmet Sweeney's two books which I mentioned, "The Pyramid Age", and "Genesis of Israel and Egypt".

132 posted on 03/07/2002 1:14:03 PM PST by medved
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