Neil,
I have just as much right as you as in giving or making any observation or comment that I have competence in making.
But you have no expertise in the matters under discussion, therefore how can you have competence in making any observation or comment on something that you have no expertise in - by your own admission?
I simply give my observations on both Hunger and Jonsson what they have written in respect to Furuli. Whether I am 'blowing smoke' is a matter for others but that can hardly be the case when I emailed Hunger and posted my dtailed observation on this board.
If Hunger thought you had a point to make, I'm sure he would have given you the time of day. If your 'detailed observation' is on this board, I must have missed it. Please give me the post no. where you detailed your observations and I'll check it out. All I saw was a lot of smoke and no real substance.
I simply do not trust your opinion or that of your cronies with repect to whether the lunar data fits 568/587 BCE for Furuli has published research that proves that 588/587 BCE is much better fit and this agrees with the Bible.
Then you are blindly trusting in something that you haven't researched for yourself. Those that have researched know that Furuli's claims are false.
My research has been and will continue to be ongoing and for me this is not the end of the matter but simply the beginning so I will have more to say over time.
Sure. We can look forward to more of your hot air. Or will you come up with the goods next time? I can hope, I guess.
I will conduct my own examination as I have outlined.
Please do. I'll await your results (but I won't hold my breath).
Furuli has not heard of you so you need to make contact with Furuli directly if you have any critisms not simply respond on a Yahoo site. Last time I looked at a Yahoo site where I thiink you were having exchanges with Furuli I remeber that Furuli responded to you with solid answers.
LOL. You're saying that Furuli has not heard of the person he had a brief exchange with. Do you ever think when you write?
You do not know what I said to Hunger in that email however that would have been the decent thing for Hunger to do?
Huh? Try that again?
Your explanation of Hunger's use of Jonsson, Stephensen & Willis and his own research of the lunar data looks very contrived to me and I do not accept your rationalization. I will make my own judgement when I access the cited refernce. Besides what astro program did Hunger personally use if you are so smart?
UraniaStar 1995 - a local Vienna planetarium program which uses Chapront-Touzé & Chapront 1991 and Meeus' algorithms.
I repeat that Furuli was the first scientfic/critical of VAT 4956 ...
You think that merely repeating this is going to magically make it true?
... in fact on page 99 in his first edition Furuli states that he used two astro programa, produces a drawing, photographs and a comparison of the translations from previous studies along with his own. Weidner and Neugebauer simply produced a lengthy tdiscussion consisting of transliteration, translation and calculations.
Thus it was a scientific, critical study, you muppet.