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To: hinckley buzzard

The professor in a college geology course I took in the early 1950s scoffed at Wegener.


8 posted on 05/26/2022 6:22:30 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

“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 ...


15 posted on 06/10/2022 9:58:19 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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