Posted: Nov 14, 2012 10:33 am
LucidFlight wrote:Dinox wrote:LucidFlight wrote:We don't know jack, except for the fact that the Earth is expanding — something we know for sure, definitely and without a shadow of a doubt.
No. We don't know the earth is "definitely expanding". Why say something that isn't true? We can only examine the evidence that seems to indicate expansion and suggest that this is a better model than an earth that hasn't changed its size for nearly four billion years.
All right. So, we don't know jack, but we can still suggest that one model is better than another. Seems reasonable.
Expanding Earth models are based on the obvious observation that the continents come back together as you wind the earth down into a smaller sphere.
That observation is denied by physics saying it's not possible... yet... physics seems to have this trend of being wrong over and over again about the bigger questions.
Plate Tectonics was originally developed off an Expanding Earth model... only... it dropped the expansion idea as the mechanism for continental drift. As more and more evidence poured in that continents where once connected... they had to resort to coming up with a new mish mash of absolute horse shit to explain it.