[bondserv]

Does the conventional model have major problems? Will textbooks need to be changed?

Just tell the kids we know very little about the universe around us, but here are some of our guesses. We call it science.

Science: An engaging and entertaining pastime that occasionally is helpful to society, but always brings confusion to those who call it God. Capricious little Devil isn't he.

[Right Wing Professor]

Just tell the kids we know very little about the universe around us, but here are some of our guesses. We call it science.

That would be a misrepresentation. We know a great deal about the universe about us, though we don't know everything. What we know is far more than a guess.

[elbucko]

Science:........but always brings confusion to those who call it God.

No. It is still only science. No one claims that science is God.

[general_re]

Does the conventional model have major problems? Will textbooks need to be changed?

I don't know, and neither does anyone else at this point, to my knowledge. What's the rush? Let geologists digest this new idea, and decide how worthwhile it is. Maybe it's a good theory, maybe not. But either way, the fact that one theory might require large changes doesn't automatically mean that some other theory, in a whole other field, will also require large changes someday. Maybe it will, but there's no way to know that from this thing.