Difference between revisions of "Talk:Continental drift"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Abraham Ortelius - 1587) |
(→Creationist?: There were more atheists (or Bible deniers in 1859 than there are today. Darwin, for example.) |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
Wasn't everybody a creationist in 1859? [[User:DevonJ|DevonJ]] 18:22, 5 February 2011 (EST) | Wasn't everybody a creationist in 1859? [[User:DevonJ|DevonJ]] 18:22, 5 February 2011 (EST) | ||
| + | |||
| + | :There were more atheists (or [[Bible deniers]] in 1859 than there are today. [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]], for example.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:37, 5 February 2011 (EST) | ||
==Other proponents== | ==Other proponents== | ||
Revision as of 00:37, February 6, 2011
I think it makes sense to move this information to plate tectonics. I just wrote a small introduction to that article, and most of this would fit nicely into it. --SStaples 00:19, 6 March 2009 (EST)
Creationist?
Wasn't everybody a creationist in 1859? DevonJ 18:22, 5 February 2011 (EST)
- There were more atheists (or Bible deniers in 1859 than there are today. Darwin, for example.--Andy Schlafly 19:37, 5 February 2011 (EST)
Other proponents
- 1587- From looking at the shape of the continents, Abraham Ortelius, a respected Flemish cartographer, suggests that America may have once been part of Europe and Africa and had been torn apart by earthquakes and floods. [1]
I found the above quote on a website that exalts the early scientific work of Catholic priests, and denies the modern notion that religion and science are (necessarily) at odds. --Ed Poor Talk 19:30, 5 February 2011 (EST)