that the discovery of similarities
between layers of rock in different
Today, Alfred Wegener of Germany, continents and fossils of tropical
published his theory of continental plants have been found on Arctic
drift. We all know the crinkly surface Islands, where the present climate
of the earth is caused by the shrinkage would have killed them off help to
of the surface as it cooled down after prove his theory of continental drift.
the earth was formed.
Scientist’s reactions have been very
But Wegener thinks he knows better. hostile. Charles Smite told us
He told us “The jigsaw-like fit of the “Wegener’s explanation of how the
Atlantic coastlines of North and South ‘drifting’ happened isn’t very
America and of Africa and Europe convincing. He is saying that the
have been evident since the first world continents ‘ploughed through’ the
maps were created.” sea bed and that their movement
was caused by tidal forces and the
Wegener, the professor of earth’s rotation. This is nonsense!
Meteorology and Navigational I’ve calculated that the forces
Astronomy also claims that the needed to move the continents like
discoveryof the same species of plant this would have stopped the earth
and animals fossils found in India, rotating.”
Africa,South America and Australia
help prove the idea of a ‘jigsaw planet.’
However, he has completely ignored
the fact that scientists have already
explained that this is because
there had once been land bridges.