[King Prout]

"the FIRST peer reviewed journal article concerning plate tectonics" could have appeared yesterday, and I would be perfectly comfortable.

moreover, "the FIRST peer reviewed journal article concerning plate tectonics" could have appeared yesterday, and your doubled-absolute statement would *still* be false.

just admit it - you made a gross overstatement.
just pledge to attempt to avoid doing it again.

then I might interested in seeing your posts.
until then, well... trading barbs with artful dodgers doesn't appeal to me.

so, again: good day.

[muawiyah]

Hardly ~ in fact, I read it in the library of the geology building at Indiana University in my undergraduate days.

Up until the publication of that particular study, it was mere conjecture. After the publication, it became accepted doctrine.

(NOTE: Nothing like being there at the foundations ~ remember, the past is not like the present ~ it really is stranger than you can imagine, unless you remember it.)