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I'll ignore the cheap insult about "vociferous, special and cyclical pleading from a lone proponent of the glacial hypothesis" and will just remind these guys that a very large number of geologists and geomorphologists over the years have also supported the glacial transport hypothesis. The fundamental flaw in this paper is that none of the 4 "key samples" on which the research is based has been shown to have come from the locations claimed. The "Altar Stone" samples are just assumed to have come from the Altar Stone, and the Orkney and Caithness samples were bought from a rock shop in Whitby. It beggars belief that for a piece of work of this potential importance, the geologists involved could not even be bothered to collect their own authenticated samples. Until that situation is rectified, and until the "exceptional claim" is matched by "exceptional and unequivocal evidence", we can safely ignore the Scottish Altar Stone hypothesis.
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