Do you believe everything you were taught in school? Human nature is to defend what we have been taught and believe and denounce new (or opposing) ideas. Scientists create limiting beliefs based on many preconceptions about the Earth which may or may not be valid. Ignorant! The Earth is not flat as once believed. Nor does the Sun revolve around the Earth. Nor does Earth have a solid core or continents on plates that drift about and collide as most geologists would have you believe.
Pangea, Continental Drift, and Plate Tectonics are all rationalizations to explain what geologists do not understand about the Earth.
We must search for answers to the unknown as well as explore and challenge so called truths. While I am open minded, I also am very grounded and rational and my tendency is to not put blind faith into anything. Neither should science, but it does so by supporting its theories until it is forced to "abandon ship" and jump "aboard" another theory.
Do you believe everything you were taught in school? Human nature is to defend what we have been taught and believe and denounce new (or opposing) ideas. Scientists create limiting beliefs based on many preconceptions about the Earth which may or ...