Posted on 06/19/2021 5:28:30 PM PDT by blueplum
If you'd been able to stare at Earth from space during the late Cretaceous, when Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops roamed, it would've looked like the whole planet had tipped over on its side.
According to a new study, Earth tilted by 12 degrees about 84 million years ago....
The researchers found that, between 86 and 79 million years ago, the crust and mantle had rotated around Earth's outer core and back again — causing the entire planet to tilt and then right itself like a roly-poly toy....
...Prior to the late Cretaceous, the Pacific Plate — the largest tectonic plate on Earth spanning 40 million square miles under the Pacific Ocean — was sinking under another plate to its north. Around 84 million years ago....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Just because something is easy to believe doesn’t make it true.
If it isn’t in the bible, it never happened. God didn’t screw up when he made earth.
Three words, “Answers in Genesis.” Look it up on the Internet.
That “tilting” would explain how Triceratops and Stegosaur facial/head horns/tusks were found embedded in the ceilings of ancient caves.
This would be a cool movie.
How does a spherical object have a side?
I’d suggest you run that one by Syd Barrett, but he ended up not handling that sort of question too well.
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