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To: editor-surveyor; VadeRetro

ever heard of a creationist called Antonio Snider? proposed contentental drifting in 1858-9

came up with this model http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/graphics/avant.gif

based upon Genesis 1:9 and geologic features.


520 posted on 12/19/2005 6:52:14 AM PST by flevit
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To: flevit

correction, proprosed the first know maps of a super continent;(I am aware at the idea of joined based continents predates even this)


521 posted on 12/19/2005 7:25:38 AM PST by flevit
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To: flevit
Hadn't heard of Antonio but this mainstream history of plate tectonics mentions him. There have been other precursors to Wegener who didn't get the same attention for their ideas.

Even Wegener's importance is reduced because he couldn't plausibly explain how a continent could drift. He thought continenets were somehow plowing the rest of the crust like an icebreaker crunching through the sea floes. That was clearly wrong, as many pointed out at the time.

523 posted on 12/19/2005 10:14:34 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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