Ping.
Wait! Plate tectonics and continental drift aren't mentioned in the Bible. What do we do???
Fantastic article, Junior.
Continental drift & the jigsaw fit of the continents is probably the most blatantly obvious fact (among thousands of others) that makes the idea of young-earth-creationism look utterly absurd. This is a great example of how ignoring real science (i.e. the interpretation that actually works) can cost people big time.
Thanks. I will have to revise my velcro-continent globe, but dividing up Australia complicates things--too many small pieces. How about Antarctica? One piece? This continental collision hypothesis conflicts seriously with the expanding earth hypothesis.
Women and minorities suffered the most.
Thailand?
I guess ocean front property isn't all it's cracked up to be.
In the beginning the earth was a bare plain. All was dark. There was no life, no death. The sun, the moon, and the stars slept beneath the earth. All the eternal ancestors slept there, too, until at last they woke themselves out of their own eternity and broke through to the surface.
When the eternal ancestors arose, in the Dreamtime, they wandered the earth, sometimes in animal form -- as kangaroos, or emus, or lizards -- sometimes in human shape, sometimes part animal and human, sometimes as part human and plant.
Two such beings, self-created out of nothing, were the Ungambikula. Wandering the world, they found half-made human beings. They were made of animals and plants, but were shapeless bundles, lying higgledy-piggledy, near where water holes and salt lakes could be created. The people were all doubled over into balls, vague and unfinished, without limbs or features.
With their great stone knives, the Ungambikula carved heads, bodies, legs, and arms out of the bundles. They made the faces, and the hands and feet. At last the human beings were finished.
Thus every man and woman was transformed from nature and owes allegiance to the totem of the animal or the plant that made the bundle they were created from -- such as the plum tree, the grass seed, the large and small lizards, the parakeet, or the rat.
This work done, the ancestors went back to sleep. Some of them returned to underground homes, others became rocks and trees. The trails the ancestors walked in the Dreamtime are holy trails. Everywhere the ancestors went, they left sacred traces of their presence -- a rock, a waterhole, a tree.
For the Dreamtime does not merely lie in the distant past, the Dreamtime is the eternal Now. Between heartbeat and heartbeat, the Dreamtime can come again.
I'd like to know about that. I've never heard of it, and I've been working with geophysicists for decades.
I'm going to email this story to one of them to see what they know.
A good example to use in arguing for "no fault" insurance.
Just show me the continuation of the Witwatersrand and we can have a gold digging safari.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
You still can see an ocean from Alice Springs -- if you've knocked back enough tinnies of Fosters first.
Yeah, just in case we have to pull it apart again!
Selway said her findings mean there could be new mineral deposits where the former separate continents joined to form Australia. Central Australia's main minerals include copper, uranium (Olympic dam) and opals.
If a test were performed to look for discontinuities in measurable parameters of the land (such as electrical resistance) of course it would make sense to look for the immediate reason why, which might be minerals, oil, magma incursions, difference in density, whatever. This doesn't highlight an old theory but rather a new test.
Thanks for posting it anyway Junior.
For the record, I looked for a map. There are bunches of near identical articles but no map.
