Re: [asa] YEC--What can we offer them?

Du Toit made much of the identical geology on both sides of the South
Atlantic. A friend once had been to Uruguay which fitted to where I was in
South Africa so I gave him a complete lithological description of the
Precambrian, right down to tillites. It was what he saw.

Incidentally Wegener was the father in law of Heinrich Harrer one of the
first to climb the N Face of the Eiger. He was interned in India and escaped
to spend "Seven Years in Tibet". Also interned with him was an Austrian Jew
and his gentile wife who pleaded to be let out to aid the war effort so he
a sugar chemist joined my father a tea chemist making explosives. When he
returned to Austria his family were all gone.- gas chambers. He thought
Harrer did a good thing escaping which he would not have done if Harrer was
a Nazi as claimed in the silly film about him.

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Campbell" <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
To: "asa" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] YEC--What can we offer them?

>> It seems that a certain sub-continent were very slooooow
>
> Probably the accent made it hard for folks over here to get your drift.
>
> The oroginal continental drift had the continents plowing through the
> seafloor, which doesn't work. Recognizing that the seafloor is made
> of moving plates, too was an important step.
>
> Also, Wegener got a bit carried away on the amount of stuff that could
> be explained. Although there have been some extremely important
> events for determining global climate and for creating or severing
> particular connections, overall the relative placement of continents
> has been grossly similar since the late Mesozoic. Thus, in general
> the distribution of organisms that have significantly dispersed or
> radiated during the Cenozoic has a decent match with current geography
> (especially if you allow some rise and fall of sea level or land
> connections). As the youngest time interval, it's also better
> preserved and documented. It's not surprising that consideration of
> Cenozoic mammal distribution did not make the 1947 Encyclopaedia
> Britannica authors too keen on continental drift, though they
> considered it worth discussing.
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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