[meteorite-list] fake Mars back on ebay

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

If it is a religious justification, science just plain doesn't count.  The 
vision allegedly happened and thus the scientific method is not applicable to a 
believer.  Anyone buying a religious vision simply will have to do it on faith 
and not look for a relationship of convenience with science, unless the God 
of that religion instructs the disciples somewhere that science and it are 100% 
respectfully compatible.

However, I's think it would be deceptive advertising not to state the 
"scientific" interpretation in the description in the meteorite category if the 
auction had rules which it doesn't, as a matter of truth in disclosure.  The 
auction has no such rules that I am aware of though someone else may know better.  
Scientific supplementary info wouldn't be necessary should it be advertised in 
religious relics category where it belongs, instead of the collectibles 
(includes meteorites) category.  As a matter of fact, it belongs in the religious 
category right now, since "Visions" and their products are not collectables imo, 
and Corning's obsolete Visions' category only includes borosilicate glass 
items.

Maybe if someone told him that God is waiting for him to hock the divine gift 
God personally chose him to receive, in that category, so someone can buy it 
and hack it to pieces.  I cross my heart that I just had a beautifully 
dramatic vision myself of God unleashing a new, way bigger meteorite straight from 
Heaven to his head for squandering God's gift to the highest bidder, and then 
being too greedy when setting the price about it to boot.  I do think the 
ministry would benefit from $28,000 just as well.  Isn't that what the Virgin María 
baloney sandwich sold for to some Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not place?  Was that 
seller cursed, I wonder?



En un mensaje con fecha 05/13/2006 2:59:25 PM Mexico Daylight Time, 
gary at webbers.com escribe:

<< I agree with you Pete.  If it is incontrovertibly identified as 
terrestrial then he can 
 no longer claim it is what his vision showed him as it would then be fraud.
 
 JMO
 
 Gary
 
 On 13 May 2006 at 15:38, Pete Pete wrote:
 
 > Hi, Gary and all,
 > 
 > Once the rock has been positively identified as terrestrial by the lab, I 
 > wonder if it technically could still be advertised as a possible meteorite 
 > on eBay thereafter, simply by the support of the vision.
 > 
 > Otherwise, everyone with a piece of furnace slag can represent it as 
 > extraterrestrial simply by the "vision" or even hunch they had saying that 
 > it was so, lab tests or not.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Pete >>