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| − | '''Continental drift''' is the process whereby [[Earth]]'s continents | + | '''Continental drift''' is the process whereby [[Earth]]'s single large land mass broke into continents that drifted apart, and still move slowly today. The breaking up of one land mass into the separate continents existing today was first proposed by [[creationist]] [[Antonio Snider]] in 1859,<ref name="Snider">Batten, Don, et. al., The Creation Answers Book, chapter 11: [http://creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter11.pdf What about continental drift?], p. 157, 2007</ref> then later by [[Alfred Wegener]] in the 1930s, but the idea wasn't widely accepted until the 1960s.<ref name="Snider" /> |
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| + | It had long been noticed that some continents seem to fit together like a [[jigsaw]], especially the west coast of Europe and Africa and the east coasts of the Americas, but it was Snider who first proposed the idea that the continents had actually moved, and he did so based partly on the account in {{Bible ref|Genesis|1|9-10}}.<ref name="Snider" /> | ||
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Revision as of 23:21, February 5, 2011
Continental drift is the process whereby Earth's single large land mass broke into continents that drifted apart, and still move slowly today. The breaking up of one land mass into the separate continents existing today was first proposed by creationist Antonio Snider in 1859,[1] then later by Alfred Wegener in the 1930s, but the idea wasn't widely accepted until the 1960s.[1]
It had long been noticed that some continents seem to fit together like a jigsaw, especially the west coast of Europe and Africa and the east coasts of the Americas, but it was Snider who first proposed the idea that the continents had actually moved, and he did so based partly on the account in Genesis 1:9-10 .[1]
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Batten, Don, et. al., The Creation Answers Book, chapter 11: What about continental drift?, p. 157, 2007