How many Evolutionist lovers in here believe that Continental Drift is something that was 'predicted' by the Evolutionists side and believe that it is a 'pro-evolution' discovery?
Evolutionary theory doesn't predict geological events, evolutionary theory is not a magic 8-ball. Geological events, however, can have a effect on natural selection presures. But to answer your insipid question, no, no one who knows what they are talking about thinks that evolution "predicted" continental drift, not do they claim continental is evidence for evolution. What's the point in even asking these questions? You make up your own answers and disregard the answers that informed people give you as "More evo lies". You don't want to discuss or debate, you want to accuse and assert.
Probably most of you.
What is it about fundies that they think gives them the right to decide what other people do or do not believe?
[iIn fact, this was a shocker to everyone and confounded Evolution theory and posed a massive problem]
Oh really? Name them please. Just what "massive problem" does continental drift pose to evolutionary theory?
It was so problematic for Evolutionists that to this day nobody has really been able to come up with a decent explain-around for it.
I'll bet most evolutionary biologists don't even think there is a need to "explain around" continental drift. You keep saying that it presents an insurmountable problem to evolutionary theory and yet you never even attempt to show what this vaporous, ethereal "problem" is.
When I was in school the explanation was that animals must have floated across oceans on little logs.
Maybe that was the explaination you came up with, but that was never the accepted scientific view.
Then the next best explanation was that all the animals traveled up the entire Earth.. over an ice or land bridge in the Arctic and then all the way back down again. Like an animal parade
You do realize that references to people and animals crossing the Bearing land bridge are in geological time, we are talking 10's of thousands of years, not a 3 day parade. And it's not as if there were no animals native to the Americas. Of course i doubt you accept the idea of geological time since you want to cut the date of everything off at 6000 years ago, even though it' a completley arbitrary date that has no meaning whatsover.
People too.
Like Egyptian people traveled all the way up to north east Russia, over the ice bridge to Alaska and all the way down to central America where they started a parallel culture.
Now your starting to get the basic idea of migration, except it wasn't the Egyptians, it was asiatic tribes in Siberia, and it was several thousand years before there even was an Egypt. Unique DNA markers shared by Amerindians and the indigenous tribes of northern Asia prove that particular migration theory.
Genesis offers some clues and did so long before the 1960s. The Earth 'gathered together in one place'
That's a rather vague statment that can be interpreted in any number of different ways. And you still haven't said how all this presents an insurmountable problem to evolutionary theory.
Although the cataclysmic global flood doesn't specifically tell us all consequences it does tell us of subterranean breaks and is on a scale that would call for such a thing as continents busting up.
Hydrogeology doesn't work that way, for it to have created massive subterranian breaks it would have to be under tremendous pressure and at high tempatures which wouldn't cause a massive global, but a massive global lobster steamer that would have sterilized the entire surface, Noah and all. But of course you will just invoke your Deus Ex Machina and all the problems are solved, except one, reality doesn't work like that and there is no indication to think that it ever has.
If you get into YEC flood models,
Sorry I don't go for psuedo-scientifical religious fanfic. Theres a problem with every single one of your "YEC Flood models", there is no evidence whatsoever that a worldwide catastrophic flood has ever taken place, none of your "flood models" are worth a shit without any evidence to back them up and that's all there is too it.
the idea of the Earth expanding is fairly popular now and some non-YEC people are taking a look at that one too. Rather than 'drifting' apart it is the Earth expanding (think of a balloon).
Are any of these "non-YEC people" actual geologists? Because geology doesn't work that way either. If the Earth were expanding then were are the cataclysmic fissures and that would be the result of such a thing? How are the effects of gravity countered in just that one specific instance? How down you explain the fact that tectonic subduction makes predicitons that are confirmed through observation of the evidence? Your little "pet theory" of an expanding earth is not consitent with observed reality and cannot be made consistent with out invoking the YEC's favorite Deus Ex Machina.
I find it highly doubtful that you or any other YEC's have the scientific know how to so much as form a workable hypothesis without having to have "god" magic something or other. I guess science is so much easier when you can just feel free to ignore the established rules of proof and evidence and just make it up as you go along, since you can just have "magic man" to tweak reality when your "pet theories" don't fit quite right.
but yeah, its a huge problem for evolution.
How so? You've been alluding to that for your entire post but you have never once said how. So, How the fuck does it pose a problem to evolutionary theory? Just saying that it does over and over and over ad nauseum doesn't make it so, and you either can't see that, or you are so smug and self righteous that you think that because you said so then it must therefor be true.
