Originally posted by texas_patriot
I feel that the earth experienced a violent trauma which caused a land/sea rift, whereas what was once ocean is now land,and vice versa.
It did experience this sort of thing, but as to it being violent or suddent, well, thats generally thought not to be what happened. THe appalachians
are interesting too because they were formed in the Permian, I think, and were originally thought to be as 'jagged' as the Rockies, but have worn
and eroded over the eons. But yes, parts of what once was the seafloor are now all over the place, atop mountains, in valleys, heck even pushed and
buried deep underground.
I feel that there is evidence of Ancient Civilizations and a huge fossil record lying upon the oceans floor.
Depends on what you mean by that. Fossil record, most defintely and its explored. Aquatic Archaelogy is popular too and many cities were build on
coasts that, in the short span of human history , have become buried by water or fallen into the oceans.
caused by a gigantic meteor strike, perhaps?
Why would a meteor strike do any of that? Plate Tectonics explains mountain building and the folding of rock layers and other processes like
subsidence and such explain the shifting landscape. The whole of central north america, whats generally the missisippi rivers range (and much more)
was in the time of the cretaceous a gigantic sea with lots of animals swimming in it. These fossisl of aquatic animals are found in dry, landlocked
states like kansas now.
thought the earth was flat, and automatically debunked any approach or thought to the contrary
Thinking people back then realized that the earth was round and some, like demosthenes I beleive, demonstrated that it was and were able to make
reasonable estimates of its circumfrence. They didn't do so by praying or using numerology or necromancy, they applied logical thought and
experimented. Logically, something like dragons could physically exist, even fire breathing isn't so loony when one considers exploding beetles and
the like. But to suggest that they existed for millenia, in large numbers all across the world and were observed all the time and fought, hunted,
killed, infact that all of them were killed, but haven't left an y physical remains, well, thats just not reasonable.
this sort of communication was even possible, in, sayyy, 1974...?
I was under the impression that a few groups were working on something like the internet and such in those times?
[qote] Causing the earth to shift axis inclination, thereby, flooding land mass...?
if the earth were to flip upside down or something I think the least of anyone's problems woudl be the oceans sloshing around. Think about a car
stopping short, or trying to change direction while moving very fast.