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have you ever seen heat crack pavement or make a fireplace out of cinder blocks and they crack from the heat?

Okay, the Earth's crust is like that. It's sitting on top of very hot magma and that occasionally caused cracks in the crust which we see as volcanoes and fissures and whatnot. When the crust moves (in this case, we call them plates), they move away from the other plates. This happens at the rate fingernails grow - about 4 inches a year. Scientists know the distance from where the continent seemed to fit like the east coast of South America looks as though it fit into Africa's west coast. They take the distance and the time it takes the continent to move and figure on how long it's taken the continents to move into their current positions. They figure about 600 million years ago, the super-continent called Pangea broke apart and drifted slowly away from each other.

So, 600,000,000 years as opposed to 6,000

billions of tons of dust block out the sun killing off nearly everything on the planet.

But, it created something nice. Something called the KT boundary. It's a thin layer of a rare element found mainly in asteroids and meteorites under which, dinosaur bones are found and above which, no dinosaur bones are found.

Eh?

"600,000,000 years as opposed to 6,000:"

Is there a point?

I know I sometimes post gobstoppers, but I try to make them somewhat accessible.

Yes, pavement cracks. In my experience it is more likely roots or subsidence or winter freeze upheval, but whatever. And as for continents I get the drift.

But 600,000,000 years as opposed to 6,000? If that is tying this in to some ill advised creation chronologies. are you sayiong the universe came into existence 600,000,000 years ago? Are you saying 6000 is a Creationist estimate on continental drift?

So you're presenting facts that the 6,000ers have already rejected as proof that they are wrong?

Well then, I will lay on you a question, which no true kmight will refuse to answer:

In what way is posting an estimated age fpr Pangaea political?

In what way is so informing us philosophical?

On what point of what theology does it shed any light?

My opening references the theme of the geas well known in folkloric studies.

Case you were interested.

just defending the argument that the earth is much older than 6,000 years old.

If a man holds a debate in the forest and there is nobody debating him, does he make a noise?

You are defending an argument that nobody is bothering to attack. [Bad use of argument, I should say]

Very impressive.

I will with equally impressive zeal for my cause, reckless of risk, announce that I am here to speak for the contention that when the Old Testament was first written down most of it was in unvocalized Hebrew.

There.