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Message 53 of 65 (544659)
01-27-2010 7:07 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by hawkes nightmare
01-27-2010 6:59 PM


What you say would only be true if you assume the current rate and direction of movement of the continents since the beginning of the planet. Not only is this assumption unsupported, the actual evidence disproves it.
Just a hint, uniformitarianism doesn't mean everything has always been as it is now, particularly when there's evidence to the contrary.
But nice try.

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