Chris:

In that case it was the "snowball Earth" theory. It took decades to be fully 
accepted

after the idea was first outlined.  There was plenty of evidence but nobody

wanted to believe it, the concept seemed too far fetched.  From what I have

learned there is so much more evidence now that nobody can deny it.


Another theory that was met with disbelief at the outset was continental drift.

That idea was disbelieved for about 50 years before no-one could deny

the reality any more. The final confirmation came when astronauts in space

measured the rate of drift from the ISS. Turns out that it is on the order

of, I think, about 3 inches per year, or was it 3 cms? Anyway, no big deal

from year to year, but it makes a difference when you think

about thousands of years or more.  There are those sea turtles

that migrate several thousand miles each year in the Atlantic.

Why? The thinking is that their nesting island once was really close

to land, waaaay back  when. As time progressed over the ages that island

got further and further away and the turtles adapted.


Not that I know very much on the subject but I kind of like geology.


Billy



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To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [RC] New Ideas


Good quote Billy!  I can see how a geologist would approach new ideas that way. 
 Something interesting might be buried in the next strata, road cut, or drill 
core.

Chris



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Subject: [RC] New Ideas









New ideas







..."new ideas or hypotheses are like small children: It’s best not to judge 
them too early

because you don’t know what they are going to be like as adults. Very often, 
the problem

with new ideas is not that they are wrong, but that they are incomplete."





geologist Paul Hoffman

Interviewed by Laura Poppick

in March 19, 2019 issue of Knowable magazine







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