And no, the continents did not break apart and "crash" into each other like a demolition derby that science has always taught with the plate tectonic theory.
"Always" is, in this case, approximately the amount of time since I graduated from high school, Arch. Plate tectonics is quite a new approach: science works like that. New data (ocean-floor magnetic striping) found with new instruments made the idea of plates moving as fast as your fingernails grow possible.
And if you can build the Himalayas in less than 10,000,000 years, I'll eat my hat and yours, too.
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons,
ca. 830 AD
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