Re: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Honored By Scientific American

From: Bigdakine (bigdakine_at_aol.comGetaGrip)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: 07 Dec 2004 20:43:01 GMT

>Subject: Re: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Honored By Scientific American
>From: Jim Logajan JamesL@Lugoj.com
>Date: 12/6/04 7:48 PM Hawaiian Standard Time
>Message-id: <Xns95B7DDE52C2EEJamesLLugojcom@129.250.170.84>
>
>robert casey <wa2ise@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> About 90 years ago someone noticed that the east coast
>> of North and South America would fit nicely along the
>> West coast of Europe and Africa.
>
>The conforming coastlines were noticed long before then, but I believe you
>are referring to Alfred Wegener who, unlike those before him, went about
>developing the theory of continental drift and collecting supporting
>evidence. One online bio on him is at:
>
>http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/wegener.html
>

Actually the first person to remark on this and have it recorded for posterity
was Francis Bacon in his "Novus Organum"

Stuart
Dr. Stuart A. Weinstein
Ewa Beach Institute of Tectonics
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a creationist"
  

"Creationists aren't impervious to Logic: They're oblivious to it."

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