Except for the drifting continents part.
"Except for the drifting continents part."
***Actually, the tectonic plate theory is instructive here. Most scientists didn't accept that theory at the time it was proposed -- it was too outlandish. Eventually, those scientists died off and were replaced with a new generation of open-minded scientists who gave it a whirl and verified much of the theory. I see that a lot of catastrophism was summarily dismissed when it was first proposed by guys like Velikovsky, but now it is readily accepted as part of different cosmology theories.