Neal Adams, a comic book artist, created an animation to promote the idea of a 'growing earth'. This idea proposes that all the continents were once all together and then pushed apart - not by plate tectonics, but by an expanding earth! Of course, he blames a scientific conspiracy for suppressing the truth which automatically sets off my 'bullshit detector'.
What I don't understand is, why get so worked up about it? I was looking for clues that this idea has some connection to religion but I didn't find any. The earth is still billions of years old in this idea and the proposed mechanism for an expansion sounds like science. Global warming conspiratists likely want to continue living the way they want without worrying about future consequences but I don't see how believing in 'plate tectonics' is a social threat. So, why is Adams and geologist Dr. James Maxlow so keen to present their ideas?
Is it a simple case of hard feelings because 'the establishment' has refuted them?
Here's the Adams video:
I also found a speech by Dr. James Maxlow at the 'Nexus Conference' which appears to be supported by Nexus Magazine. According to its website, Nexus Magazine is,
a bi-monthly alternative news magazine covering health breakthroughs, future science and technology, suppressed news, free energy, religious revisionism, conspiracy, the environment, history and ancient mysteries, the mind, UFOs, paranormal and the unexplained.
Oh. Kay.
Here's part 1 of Maxlow's speech (I couldn't be bothered to watch the other 13!):
Anyone have any ideas on why they're trying to promote this idea?
5 comments:
well first thing that came to my mind was that the flood would fit, no need to explain all the water mystically vanishing when the earth just got bigger.
but that is just a wild guess...
Cranks always want to have their 15 minutes, and Neal Adams is another in a long list. Read up on Martin Gardner's books, he shows the underlying commonality of crankish behavior.
I'm new to this theory myself. What's hard for me to figure out is what causes people to reject this idea outright after seeing that the continents fit together almost perfectly on a smaller globe.
The theory of Plate Techtonics basically says that the continents are drifting more or less freely and practically at random.
It should be known that this very theory is roughly 50 years old. Before that time, most people thought that earth's entire crust was completely motionless and solid.
The primary piece of evidence used to prove continental drift in the first place was the magnetic signature left behind when new ocean floor crust forms, cools and hardens.
For anyone not crystal clear about magnetic signatures, it is the metals in the crust that align with the earth's magnetic poles at the time the crust is still hot enough. Once cooled, the metals stay in place and their magnetic fields - or signatures - are fixed as well.
Both theories - plate tectonics and expanding earth - heavily rely on this magnetic signature to reconstruct the locations of the continents of earth through time.
In plate tectonics, the continents move about more or less randomly. Add to that, the earth's own magnetic field wobbles and even flips. To what degree that occurs and how often, I'm not sure.
In expanding earth, the continents are always moving apart, but can be put back together edge-to-edge. At the same time, the magnetic signatures lead to earth's magnetic field staying pretty much in the same place during the past 200 million years. Beyond that, all the continents form one seamless crust.
You can check out this link Crustal age, and see for yourself just how young earth's entire ocean floor really is. Consider that if the plate tectonics theory is true, then earth's entire ocean floor must be completely replaced (even in the Mediterranean) every 280 million years. That means every square kilometer under the oceans, which is more than half the entire surface of the earth.
Take a few moments to really think about that and what plate tectonics is trying to say: earth's entire surface area is 510 million square kilometers; the ocean covers 71% of that = 360 million square kilometers. If you studied the picture in the link above, only the Mediterranean floor is 280 million years old. Every other ocean floor tops out at roughly 180 million years, but most of it - roughly 80% - barely reaches 100 million years.
I don't know enough about either theory to say which is true. It could be a combination of both.
GPS satellites can measure the movement of the continents and, as far as I know, they don't suggest the earth is expanding. However, it could be that the earth did expand and now the plates are moving.
However, it's important to remember that ideas are just ideas until there is evidence to support them.
Dear uploader
Why did you immediatly check to see what religious connection this idea had?
Should you not have checked the plate tectonics theory out?
Or checked Neal Adams background?
Or James Maxlows?
Or looked into sea floor spreading?
Dinosaur size?
What the hell as the bible got to do with science?LOL I KNOW WHAT!!!
It is endorsed by the Catholic church
AND SO IS SCIENCE!!!!!
hahahahahahahaha
its true!!!!!!!
Look into the big bang!!!!
The pope loves that idea
From one unknown scientifically indesribable thing we have everything!!!
woohoo!!!
er,.........genesis anybody?
no sorry
ITS EVEN STUPIDER THAN GENESIS
no god
no tricks
no buL***it
JUST SCIENCE
earth is growing
(look into exponential sea floor spreading,that'd be a start)
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