cheers, caveman
Dr E D F Williams wrote:
Oh for goodness sake! There is good solid evidence in support of plate tectonics. The edges of the plates we can get at have the same rock formation, minerals and fossils as the matching ones now very far away. Do you believe that mountain ranges were pushed up? Look at the folded ones. You can see irrefutable evidence that they were. Why is the surface of the earth rising in places and falling in others? Mountains still growing upwards? Land still sinking? Because the crust of the earth is floating about on a molten sea. This makes the inhabitants of San Francisco very nervous.
In other words, Plate Tectonics is science. Genesis is a chapter in a very silly story-book.
I'm not going to go on with this.
Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002
----- Original Message ----- From: "T Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:01 PM Subject: Re: (o)possums (was: Agfa Competition)
Actually, the theory I like is: The earth was once a moon of Jupiter that got hit by a giant nickel iron meteor which smashed into the core of that moon raising the temperature to the point where meteor melted. The
collision
knocked the earth out of its orbit around Jupiter and it finally
stabilized
in its present orbit. Since the planet is now much larger than it was
before
the collision the surface broke up and the land masses are spread out farther apart than before. Also since the mass of the planet is more than twice what it was prior to collision the gravity is also more than it was back then. The increased gravity broke the backs of all the dinosaurs causing them to become extinct. The lower gravity was the reason the dinosaurs could be large.
Then about 50-100 thousand years ago, a giant spaceship parked in orbit around the earth. There was a mutiny and all the crew was stranded down
here
and are out ancestors.
Strangely, I find the above no more unbelievable than I do plate tectonics or genesis.
Points to anyone who can name the books these theories came from.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Langevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:22 AM Subject: Re: (o)possums (was: Agfa Competition)
Yep. Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum). note that it is opossum
with
an "o" unlike the Aussie possum (no "o"). The Virginia opossum is a
true
marsupial with a well developed pouch. It is the only North American marsupial. There are several in South America, which at one point, was attached to Australia and floating free in the Pacific ocean until they separated and S. America joined N. America via Central America. When
this
happened, S. American mammals (mostly marsupials) headed north and N. American mammals (mostly placentals) headed south. In the end, the placental mammals faired much better in both regions so there are fewer marsupial in the Americas. (If you believe in that sort of thing, what
with
plate tectonics, evolution, etc....)
Christian
I met only one person who did not believe in plate tectonics. I don't think it is a question of "believing". It is simply the best theory available, as with Bering Straight migration as the main source of migrants. As an inside, there was an Argentinian paleontologist who said he could prove that man appeared first in Argentina but could never show his bony proofs. In that case it was a question of believing...
Andre --
