Articles addressing Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, and the Bible at http://

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Articles addressing Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, and the Bible at http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=78challenge some of the evidences offered in your text for the plate tectonics theory. Review the evidences for drifting continents, as well as the challenges to some of these.

Summarize three or four main points that creationists make, then address what you think is right about Continental Drift? Post your response in the Activity 2.3 Continental Drift discussion forum and state in two or three sentences the reason for your belief regarding what is the most accurate view based on current scientific evidence.  

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1. Similarities in shape of Coastlines; the Atlantic coasts of south America and Africa have roughly similar shape. They would fit in nicely if they are brought in contact with each other.

2.Similar Orogenic belts;If the eastern coast south America and the western coast of Africa are fitted together,the orogenic belts of two continents which have the same range of ages and similar structural trend, are found to align themselves across the join.

3.Glossopteris flora; The remain of the glossopteris flora occur in the rock beds of the gondwana series in south america,south, Africa,,india,australia and antarctica.These flolra maximum developed in permo-Corboniferous period.

The nature of their species distribution can only be explained if all the southern continents were joined together

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