From: Geoff Forbes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Conspiracy of Science
Nicholas,
While you do indeed make some excellent points, I have to admit that, in the
context of a respectful debate, I very much dislike emotionally charged
words and name-calling, e.g., cranks, stupidity, ludicrous...
Geoffrey A. Forbes, M.S.
LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping LLC
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> Subject: Re: Conspiracy of Science
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:02 -0000
> From: Nicholas Verge <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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> Angie,
>
> I presume you brought this animation to our attention to
> entertain us by
> showing an example of sheer stupidity and how utterly
> wrong-headed
> proponents of the Expanding Earth theorey are. It is out
> there with those
> who claim mankind coexisted with the dinosaurs. Never once
> is it ever
> explained why the earth would be expanding, or the answers
> to the question
> if the planet is expanding, what was its initial state and
> what will
> become of it in the future. Such a hypothesis would be a
> reasonable one,
> if we were still living in the dark ages (it seems some
> still are) knew
> next to nothing about physiscs, the Earth and its history.
> However, we now
> know a huge amount about these and none of it provides any
> support for
> this ludicrous idea. Another strong peice of geological
> evidence that
> refutes the idea of an expanding planet is the presence of
> convergent
> plate boundary zones (subduction zones and major moutain
> belts) throughout
> earth history. These mark regions where two ro more
> lithospheric plates
> are, or have been, moving towards each other, a concept
> incompatible with
> the idea that the Planet is expanding!
>
> The only thing I am amazed about is the stupidity of the
> very small number
> of cranks who continue to advocate such nonsense, when
> there is an
> extremely successful model explaining how and why the
> earths lithosphere
> moves and one that can successfully explain the great
> majority of smaller
> scale earth processes, features and phenomena as being a
> direct or
> indirect result of this motion. I am of course refering to
> Plate
> Tectonics, driven by convection within the asthenosphere,
> probably one of
> the all-time most susccessful concepts in the history of
> science, along
> with evolution, quantum mechanics, the Big Bang and general
> relativity.
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:48:48 -0000, Angela R Cope
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory
> that the Earth is
> > growing. This collides with the Pangea theory. Watch
> it, you will be
> > amazed.
> >
> >
>
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&resnum=0&q=The+Expanding+Earth+The
ory&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
> >
> >
> > Angie
>
>
>
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