Posted on 05/26/2022 3:21:32 PM PDT by SES1066
In the 1960-70s, every geology textbook was rewritten, as the previous verities were DESTROYED! Alfred Wegner (1880-1930) was, posthumously, proven correct, in the face of the academia that scoffed at him. What was needed, was the mechanism, that the technology of WW2 provided.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Well worth the time to see a 52 year old science program. Yes, it does have a scientist postulating an expanding earth, but that is the fun of it! A popular viewing of an 'ology' being forced into new verities!
A C Clarke's 1st Law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is impossible, they are very probably wrong."
I don’t believe that Arthur C. Clarke would have used pronouns in that politically correct but grammatically reprehensible way.
Just wondering, do they mention Marie Tharp? Her work paved the way for plate tectonics to be recognized by science, eventhough Bruce Heezen took credit for it.
Dr. Tanya Atwater was a big player in early plate tectonic theories.
Same book openly mocked catastrophism, which turns out to have been mostly right.
Ping.
I learned of the theory of plate tectonics in high school, 1962. It seemed fairly obvious then, and has since been largely confirmed.
The professor in a college geology course I took in the early 1950s scoffed at Wegener.
Fact-rich and presented in an elegantly simple fashion. What a rare find!
All you have to do is look a world map.
See the world over time. 0 to 750 million years ago.
Change the time at the top of the page. You can also drag the globe around with your mouse. The North American continent did not exist for much of the time.
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#400
Watch later.
The "plate tectonics revolution" didn't hit until the 1960s, and is really just warmed-over "continental drift", a term that has been deprecated the same way the web standards have deprecated TABLE and FORM, but both are still in use. I'm pretty sure I learned about it outside K-12, probably via magazines, but a cousin of mom's had been a teacher for a while and had a sort of diorama about PT in his basement.
“Alfred Wegner” s/b “Alfred Wegener” btw.
Thank you. I try to stay accurate but that is one that got by me.
He is a real hero in life as well as science, given his death in a life-saving effort. I'd like to think that, had he lived, he should have had Nobel Laureate in his CV, but like Hubble, it also might not have happened.
I was impressed by this BBC presentation and thankful for the poster, " Earth and Space Sciences X", in finding it. Such a good presentation that avoided a lot of the 'talk down' tendencies that seem all too prevalent.
“The professor in a college geology course I took in the early 1950s scoffed at Wegener.”
i had an 8th grade science teacher come completely unglued wuhn i suggested that africa and south america looked like they had fitted together at some point in the past ... she literally started ranting that that was just a coincidence and there was zero “scientific” evidence to support such a conclusion ....
it was one of the most valuable lessons of my life in public school because i thought her reaction was WAY out of line for such a simple observation [an older me would realize that “the lady doth protest too much, methinks”], and as consequence i was no longer wowed by the authority of my public school teachers and begin to think critically about everything they claimed ... and i’ve remained a critical thinker to this day ...
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