Sunday, February 13, 2011

Continental Drift and the Age of the Earth

The theory of Continental Drift is also one of the primary lines of reasoning by popular science publications and the "scientific establishment" (of believers) to promote an old earth. The theory goes like this:

Since it appears that the East coasts of North and South America would fit together with the coasts of Africa and Europe, perhaps they once did. And if they were at one time joined together, then (so we are told) it must have taken millions of years for them to separate: 200 million years for North America and Europe, and about 20 million for South America and Africa. Few realize it but the 200 million year figure was arrived at (not by direct measurements but) by radiometric dating of ocean bottom rocks.

See: Continental Drift and the Age of the Earth http://www.earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/Continental_Drift_and_the_Age_of_the_Earth.htm and Earthage at http://www.earthage.org/