Well, Keith, we meet again! Say, if you have a moment in the midst of your hectic schedule, I have some pertinent questions for you. Since you claim to be the leading Oak Island researcher, these should be a cinch for you.
Ten Questions For Keith Ranville:1. When you show your picture of Birch Island superimposed with the triangle of dots (similar to the stone triangle on Oak Island), have you made it clear there are no boulders or stones on Birch Island representing these positions?
2. When you claim that the "triangle" on Birch Island is man-made, have you made it clear that from aerial images, there are obvious indications of wetland features, such as streams, emergent vegetation (plants that exist in a partially wet-partially dry environment) and natural springs?
3. Have you addressed the fact that such plant growth as mentioned above exhibits extreme change over the short time interval of twenty to thirty years between when the black-and-white images were taken and when the color images were taken?
4. Have you considered the possibility that if such environmental change (like shifting shorelines, missing trees and drying wetlands) could occur in such a short timeframe (possibly as little as thirty years or so), how difficult it would be for a supposedly "man-made" feature to still be visible after three hundred and fifty years?
5. When you suggest that native tribes are responsible for the placement of the Inscribed Stone ninety feet below ground, had also dug a mile-and-a-half long tunnel between Oak Island and Birch Island, and placed underwater doors on Birch Island, have you any evidence of such below ground work done anywhere else by the same native tribes?
6. Have you explained the difficulty of excavating a mile-and-a-half long tunnel completely underwater from Oak Island to Birch Island, the difficulty of getting fresh air to the miners, and where the spoils from such an excavation would have been placed?
7. If, as you suggest, that the Money Pit (where the Inscribed Stone was found) was never meant to go below the depth where the Stone was found (around ninety feet), then what was the purpose of the concrete vault some twenty feet further down containing oak and metal pieces, evidence of which was brought up by hand augur in the 1800s?
8. If, as you suggest, the ninety foot level was as far as the excavators meant to go, then why is there evidence of man-made activity below bedrock at two hundred feet, as evidenced by video and iron brought up from Borehole 10-X, some sixty feet distance from the Money Pit?
9. If, as you suggest, there was no need to go below ninety feet, then why were there (at least) two separate self-contained drainage systems leading into the Money Pit below the hundred foot level, whose terminus were false beaches lined with coconut fiber, material that is not native to Nova Scotia?
10. When you claim that Francis Bacon was a Freemason, have you taken into account that there is no evidence of any English Masonic body before 1717, more than ninety years after Bacon passed away?
There are a couple dozen more questions I'd love to have Keith answer. But as will soon be seen, whenever anyone brings up such inconvenient questions, pointing out the glaring holes in Keith's research, he responds with personal attacks, more spam press releases, or the current retort of choice, placing his fingers in his ears and yelling "Nyah nyah, can't hear you, you're on the ignore list!"
If you'd care to see a sampling of how Keith reacts to such inconvenient questions, feel free to visit the complaint thread Keith started at Atlantis Rising, at
http://forums.atlantisrising.com/cgi-bin/u...t=000858#000003 .
And if anyone seriously wants to help Keith in his adventure with reality, perhaps you might ask some hard-hitting questions before he embarrasses himself on videotape for all the world to see. Or, if you merely want to participate in his personal fan club without holding him to account for his theories, then by all means, let him claim whatever he wants without accountability.
I would respectfully suggest, however, that's not the way true research is done.
TemplarScribe
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