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Expanding Earth /
The Evidence:
The Evidence:
| 1. Young Oceans. As predicted by expanding Earth theory, all current seafloor in the world is young (less than 200 million years old.) This was not expected given the conventional view of the time: continental fixism. |
| 2. Matching Trans-Pacific Outlines. The continental outlines that bracket each ocean, Pacific included, fit together like pieces of a puzzle. |
| 3. Trans-Pacific Biotic Disjunctions The regions that interlock along matching outlines (New Zealand - South Chile; Tasmania and South-central Chile, etc.) share hundreds of poor-dispersing sister taxa found nowhere else in the world. The distributional problems created by the hypothesis of a now vanished pre-Pacific superocean are overwhelming. The webpage link above focuses on this evidence. |
| 6. Successful expanding Earth predictions vs. post-hoc plate tectonic explanations. While many "surprising" geophysical discoveries were predicted by expanding Earth theory, plate tectonics has had to develop new hypotheses to explain the problematic observations. |
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| 5. Simple Geometric Problem In the Cretaceous, both the Pacific plate and South America were connected to Antarctica. Since that time North America and its Bering region has moved away from South America while South America has moved away from Antarctica, requiring that the distance between Antarctica and the Bering regions is greater today than in the Late Cretaceous. The Pacific has expanded north-south since that time. It has not significantly contracted as static radius assumptions require. |
| 4. The Dinosaur Circuit Even in conventional reconstructions of the Late Cretaceous, North America and East Asia were connected by the Bering bridge while South America and Australia were both connected to Antarctica. During that same time, a great number of terrestrial taxa including the largest of dinosaurs moved between South America and North America -- and Australia and East Asia. This requires direct terrestrial connections completely around the Pacific, confirming its smaller size. |
More sections to come (11/30/05) on paleomagnetic, paleosedimentary, and geological analyses