Posted: Feb 02, 2018 11:38 am
ginckgo wrote:I can already see massive continent-wide faults, for which there is literally zero evidence, intruduced just to make this reconstruction work. Totally dishonest.
And he seems to used coastlines, rather than continental outlines. Totally ignorant
All I'd say in his defence is that this is a guy who was working 40 odd years before the advancement of plate tectonics as a hypothesis. He didn't have modern data, knowledge, computers or techniques at his disposal.
So he produced a model back in the 20s and 30s that didn't really work all that well and got rejected. I'm not sure there's a lot more to the story than that. The model failed, I don't think we should impute any personal failings because of that.