The Earth Is Growing thing is ridiculous. It complains about the 'continents sliding about willy-nilly' like they're on 'greased pans', yet in order to expand like that, they also have to slide around (notably Australia/Antarctica - which are moving closer to Asia, not away), and you can see how the continents twist and distort to get them to "fit" together. It also laughably implies the continents are skidding around at super-speed. It doesn't say WHY the earth is growing, or WHERE the ocean water came from. And it ignores the fact we can measure measure plate tectonics these days. North America and Europe are moving away from each other by a couple of inches per year. We can also see subduction (Marianas Trench, also measurable in inches per year), plates grinding against each other (California), and plates tearing apart (Rift Valley)
And of course we don't get fossils from the bottom of the ocean - no one has looked (and it's awful dark down there).
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Date: 2007-05-01 12:09 am (UTC)And of course we don't get fossils from the bottom of the ocean - no one has looked (and it's awful dark down there).