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Continents do not move. · toron

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Continents do not move.

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Do the continents move? — The continental drift debateConcluded1 mentions

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This refutes

UnverifiedThere is no need to move whole continents to explain shared fossils.
UnverifiedThe continents were once a single supercontinent named Pangaea before breaking apart and drifting to their current positions.
UnverifiedOne continent splitting apart is simpler and fits the data better than land bridges.

Refutes this

UnverifiedContinents ride with the crust as it is carried along by thermal convection in the mantle.
UnverifiedContinents do not plow through anything.
UnverifiedThe engine that carries continents has been measured rather than imagined.

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