On Jan 9, 9:41 am, "otisbr...@pa.net" <otisbr...@pa.net> wrote:

Subject: The opinion of Association of Petroleum-Geologists Society

In his work, Wegener presented a large amount of circumstantial
evidence in support of continental drift, but he was unable to come
up with a convincing mechanism.

Thus, while his ideas attracted a few early supporters such as
Alexander Du Toit from South Africa and Arthur Holmes in England, the
hypothesis was generally met with skepticism.

The one American edition of Wegener's work, published in 1924, was
received so poorly that the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists organized a symposium specifically in opposition to the
continental drift hypothesis.

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Their theory was that continents could not plow through solid
rock.

But the "solid rock" was their frozen brains.
And no new concept could plow through that!

Q. E. D.

Also its opponents could, as did the Leipziger geologist Franz
Kossmat, argue that the oceanic crust was too firm for the
continents "simply to plow through". By the 1930's, Wegener's
geological work was almost universally dismissed by the scientific
community and remained obscure for some thirty years.

In the 1950s and 1960s, several developments in geology, notably the
discoveries of seafloor spreading and Wadati-Benioff zones, led to
the rapid resurrection of the continental drift hypothesis and its
direct descendant, the theory of plate tectonics.

Alfred Wegener was quickly recognized as a founding father of one of
the major scientific revolutions of the 20th century.

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What took so long???

Otis

OF COURSE YOU'RE RIGHT!

Continents drift, therefore shoes cause macular degeneration.

-MT