Moving Along with Plate Tectonics
Hey, what's shaking? Probably the plates moving around on the earth's surface. "But plate tectonics is secular, Cowboy Bob!" Should we reject a theory because it was developed by a secular scientist? Not hardly! (After all, we don't want to be guilty of the genetic fallacy and act like atheo-fascists , do we?) Nor should we blindly accept a view because it's popular. Like J Harlen Bretz and the Channeled Scablands , Alfred Wegener also bucked the consensus system when he proposed plate tectonics. This has observable scientific evidence, unlike goo-to-geologist evolution. Image credit: US Geological Survey (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Earth's surface is on plates that move. Earthquake zones and volcanoes seem to mark the edges of these plates, and when they rub against each other, you get things like the San Andreas Fault out California way. The islands of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean (perhaps you've heard of them