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a case of scientific bias and eventual vindication
'''Continental drift''' is the process whereby [[Earth]]'s single large land mass broke into continents that drifted apart, and still move slowly today. The breaking up of one land mass into the separate continents existing today was first proposed by [[creationist]] [[Antonio Snider]] in 1859,<ref name="Snider">Batten, Don, et. al., The Creation Answers Book, chapter 11: [http://creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter11.pdf What about continental drift?], p. 157, 2007</ref> then later by [[Alfred Wegener]] in the 1930s, but the idea wasn't widely accepted until the 1960s.<ref name="Snider" />
The '''Continental drift''' theory asserts that the [[Earth]] had a single large land mass which broke into [[continent]]s that continued to separate, and that they still move slowly today. The breaking up of one land mass into the separate continents was first proposed by [[creationist]] [[Antonio Snider]] in 1859,<ref name="Snider">Batten, Don, et. al., The Creation Answers Book, chapter 11: [http://creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter11.pdf What about continental drift?], p. 157, 2007</ref> then later by [[Alfred Wegener]] in the 1930s, but the idea wasn't widely accepted until the 1960s.<ref name="Snider" />
It had long been noticed that some continents seem to fit together like a [[jigsaw]], especially the west coast of Europe and Africa and the east coasts of the Americas, but it was Snider who first proposed the idea that the continents had actually moved, and he did so based partly on the account in {{Bible ref|Genesis|1|9-10}}.<ref name="Snider" />
It had long been noticed that some continents seem to fit together like a [[jigsaw]], especially the west coast of Europe and Africa and the east coasts of the Americas, but it was Snider who first proposed the idea that the continents had actually moved, and he did so based partly on the account in {{Bible ref|Genesis|1|9-10}}.<ref name="Snider" />
The theory of continental drift is notable in that mainstream scientists dismissed the theory for many decades before finally taking a look at the evidence for at after nearly a generation had passed (see [[scientific bias]]).
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