[whattajoke]

I see that it's time to repost my "intelligent drift" theory of continental placement.

Ah, yes. That was a great one! Is DittoJed the first person to discredit plate tectonics here? I believe AndrewC, Gore3K, and perhaps even our dearly departed friend accepted p tec's.

[DittoJed2]

Yeah, except that is not what I said. I said that Pangea doesn't work.

Actually, the Bible seems to indicate the possibility of a more closely knit continental system than we see today.

[Doctor Stochastic]

A friend of mine did some studies of fossil trees in both South America and Africa (work done in 1930s to 1940s, unfortunately I don't have a reference.) What he got was a common sequence (actually several, depending on the family of tree) between both Africa and South America. We can call this sequence A. Then in Africa, there was a sequence B which clearly joined with A giving AB. In South America, there was another sequence C, clearly joined with A, giving AC. So for several types of trees we have a sequences lined up according to AAAAABBBBB and AAAAACCCCC. The AAAAA is common to both Africa and South America, the BBBBB and CCCCC belong to one continent only.

He used this to bolster continential drift before any mechanism was found.

[VadeRetro]

The really explicit plate-tectonics deniers are those who throw up Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory. (We've had a few such.) That abomination has the continents skidding around on cushions of subterranean water and banging into each other like bumper cars right after the flood. That is, they don't believe in slow tectonics, but they believe the same thing can happen incredibly fast if there's water down below.

Of course, anyone who thinks the earth is 6K old has some kind of a problem with plate tectonics. Most of them just don't know it.

[Ichneumon]

Is DittoJed the first person to discredit plate tectonics here?

No, Freeper "flash-frozen mammoths" Havoc did so a few months ago.