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Claim CD740:

The theory of plate tectonics is false.

Source:

Brown, Walt, 1995. In the Beginning: Compelling evidence for creation and the Flood, 6th ed. http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/HydroplateOverview3.html
Nevins, Stuart E., 1976. Continental drift, plate tectonics, and the Bible. Impact 32 (Feb.). http://icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-032.htm

Response:

  1. Plate tectonics was uncertain as recently as the 1960s, but evidence in its favor has become overwhelming:

Links:

Alden, Andrew, 2003. Tectonic plate motions, Eurasia/Africa. http://geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/blplatemo_atlas.htm

References:

  1. Bishop, A. C., 1981. The development of the concept of continental drift. In The Evolving Earth, ed. L. R. M. Cocks, London: British Museum, 155-164.
  2. Davidson, Jon P., Walter E. Reed, and Paul M. Davis, 1997. Exploring Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  3. Graham, A. L., 1981. Plate tectonics. In The Evolving Earth, ed. L. R. M. Cocks, London: British Museum, 165-178.

Further Reading:

Cocks, L. R. M. (ed.), 1981. The Evolving Earth. London: British Museum.

McPhee, John, 1998. Annals of the Former World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Davidson, Jon P., Walter E. Reed, and Paul M. Davis, 1997. Exploring Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Plate tectonics will be covered in most any basic geology textbook.
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