THE MARS-EARTH WARS

                         Biographies of the Authors



   Donald W. Patten

   Donald Wesley Patten was born in 1929 at Conrad, Montana.  He received
   a BA from the Geography Department, Univ. of Washington in 1951, and
   also the MA degree in Geography in 1961.  He is married, has seven
   children and sixteen grandchildren.  In Seattle, he was the founder of
   Microfilm Service Co., and also of Patten Corporation, a firm involved
   in commercial property management.

   He has written three books, The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch
   (1966), The Long Day of Joshua and Six Other Catastrophes (1973) and
   Catastrophism and the Old Testament (1988).  He edited the series for
   Baker Book House, 1968-1980, entitled Symposium on Creation.

   With Windsor, he has co-authored The Recent Organization of the Solar
   System, and nine published essays.

   Patten and Windsor were among a party of ten, led by David Fasold, who
   inspected the Ark Site, the Chip Stone Site and the Drogue Stones Site
   on June 21, 1990, all near Dogubayazit, Turkey.  The Ark Site is two
   miles from the Iranian border, at an elevation of 6,300 feet.  It is
   18 miles due south of Mt. Ararat.

   Patten also is a principal in a current experiment on the relationship
   of effect of elevated carbon dioxide in controlled atmospheres on the
   size and longevity of mammals.

   Patten is a member of Bethany Community Church in Seattle and is on
   the endowment committee of Shoreline Christian School (formerly Watson
   Groen Christian School), Shoreline, Washington.  He is a member of
   Seattle's Ravenna Avenue Chess Club.
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   Samuel R. Windsor

   Samuel Ronald Windsor was born in 1934 at Wichita, Kansas.  He
   received a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1959 at Wichita State
   University.  He resides on Orcas Island, Washington.  He is married,
   has nine children and sixteen grandchildren.  He is the associate
   partner in Bronson & Windsor, a firm in naval architecture and marine
   engineering in Seattle's Ballard district.  Windsor also is an
   engineer specializing in forensics, involving industrial accidents.
   Windsor has appeared in courts as a scientific witness in countless
   law suits involving industrial accidents, sometimes for the plaintiff,
   sometimes for the defendant.  They have been high figure law suits
   where an engineering analysis of the accident scenes have been needed.

   Windsor co-authored with Patten The Recent Organization of the Solar
   System.  He has also authored several essays on Earth history.  These
   include The Venus vs. Mars Controversy (or Which Planet Assaulted the
   Earth), Noah's Ark, 24,000 Deadweight Tons, and Noah's Ark: Its
   Geometry.  These were published in the periodical Catastrophism and
   Ancient History.  Also, he has co-authored with Patten seven other
   published essays on Earth history.

   Windsor and his wife (Erma) were among the party of ten who, in June
   1990, led by David Fasold, inspected the Ark Site, the Chip Stone Site
   and the Drogue Stones Site.

   Windsor is a member of the International Conference of Building
   Officials, the American Concrete Institute and American MENSA.