Posted: Nov 14, 2012 11:04 am
Light Storm wrote:LucidFlight wrote:Light Storm wrote:Based on the evidence of the next Atlantic ocean in it's infancy starting to form in Africa, I would side with the idea that the Earth is still expanding...
Ah, excellent. We'll need a new ocean for when the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea disappear.
Because in some imaginary world the ratio of rifting vs subduction is 1 to 1 and has been that way for 4 billion years. Yet... 70% of the Earths surface is less then 250 million years old.
Can you think of a mechanism for how the ratio of rifting to subduction is not 1 to 1? Oh, yeah. The earth is expanding, therefore the ratio of rifting to subduction is not 1 to 1.
That this absurd expansion idea has to deal with its violations of conservation laws is of secondary importance, right LS? Let's stop calling it the 'expanding earth' hypothesis, then and focus on the 'trashing conservation laws' hypothesis. I believe in calling shit by its true name: Shit.