However, Wegener could not supply the mechanism for continental movement. That had to wait for WWII and the sonar mapping of the ocean floor and further for satellite imagery. The sonar mapping showed the existence of mid ocean ridges which were shown to be volcanically active, dividing and pushing the ocean crust apart creating new ocean floors. Also, deep ocean trenches were found that allowed for the old ocean floor to be sub-ducted beneath continental crusts. Further, the plate movements were in balance. Wegener was vindicated. Old earth was further evidenced and explained.
Returning to the German institute, their findings and publications hardly seem to ever contemplate a young earth. For instance, their research on the ice ages, as recently published, concentrate on the last 100,000 years and the succession of ice ages and warm spells:
Over the past one hundred thousand years cold temperatures largely prevailed over the planet in what is known as the last ice age. However, the cold period was repeatedly interrupted by much warmer climate conditions. Scientists have long attempted to find out why these drastic temperature jumps of up to ten degrees took place in the far northern latitudes within just a few decades. Now, for the first time, a group of researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have been able to reconstruct these climate changes during the last ice age using a series of model simulations. The surprising finding is that minor variations in the ice sheet size can be sufficient to trigger abrupt climate changes. The new study was published online in the scientific journal Nature last week and will be appearing in the 21 August print issue.
The ICR's misuse and distortion of other peoples research is best illustrated in Dr. Andrew Snelling's garbage geology. I think he may be responsible for the unsupportable theories of intense volcanism following a worldwide flood which flat out never happened. He has all the granite cooling rapidly and being exposed by erosion over a mere 100 or so years.
I will say that the ICR "scientists" are very active and imaginative con artists who delight in keep their enemies in biology, geology, chemistry, etc. running around to disprove their absurdities.
Brian Thomas (MS) is doing his best to justify his paycheck. He throws as big a steaming pile as he can hoping that someone - anyone is just dumb enough to jump in behind him on the off chance that they may have a gotcha moment to cudgel real science with.
Jim - refuting the stupidity is a waste of time. For crying out loud - we have people claiming rainbows never happened before the end of the flood....
What is ICR?