xkcd #3258: Plate Flip
5d 2h ago by lemmy.world/u/xkcdbot in xkcd from imgs.xkcd.com
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It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
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An acquaintance recieved her masters in geology from a state university in deep Appalachia. (you've probably heard of their football team) All of the professors were YE creationists and rejected plate tectonics.
I don't know any details, because this was years ago and I didn't think to ask questions. So I don't know if these were personal beliefs that you wouldn't know about unless your deep in the dept. or if they were teaching this crap to students.
Plate tectonics was only accepted in the sixties (but I doubt your story was that long ago). I don't know what it is about geologists that makes them drop the ball so hard.
They knew about continental drift before that. They just didn't know the mechanism.
Oh, this was the mid-late 90s.
That's about right though - Christianity is generally a couple of decades behind while making up excuses
(was raised in some silly churches)
That both somehow doesn't surprise me and also, yiiikes
Bad for the life forms