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