Re: Making money from Java

Judson McClendon wrote:
>> But we know there are fossils of sea creatures
>> even on mountain tops.

Yes, and there may be several different explanations for this. The
methodology of coming up with the correct answer is to propose an
answer and then test that against other evidence, discarding what is
shown to not fit.

One explanation of why there are sea fossils up mountains is that the
sea was at some point high enough to cover the mountain. Another
explanation is the the material that is now the mountain was at some
earlier time underneath the sea.

As knowledge about the world grew it was realised that there was never
enough water to raise the sea more than a couple of hundred feet but it
was clear that the land masses moved and where continents collided the
material was piled up into mountains. The Atlantic is widening as
Afica/Europe and the Americas move apart. Where the leading edge of the
Americas meet the Pacific plates the seabed is scraped up to form the
western ranges - the Andes and the Rockies. These are full of seabed
fossils from when they were formed over millions of years from
sediments entrapping animals to fossilise. Subduction in places also
leads to volcanism.

The same happens as India pushes north forming the Himalayas and Africa
moves north forming the Alps and the mountains across Greece, Turkey,
and middle east. The recent eathquake in Kashmia is a consequence of
the stress build up from this movement and is likely to have raised the
mountains around that area by a metre. The tsunami last boxing day was
a slippage of the fault line between the Indian plate and SE Asia as
India moves slowly north.

3000 years ago or so peoples in a small area of palestine could not
know about plate techtonics and so wrote a story about the only
explanation that they could come up with. But there is no excuse for
people today to be ignorant of the real world, and to foist that
ignorance on others, even their children. It is like teaching chemistry
as 'fire, earth, water, air'.

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