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Expanding Earth Theory - WTF???

MattusMaximus

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My wife just sent me this link on YouTube, and I felt that I should share it with you all...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U

I cannot begin to say how stupid this idea is - for one thing, where the hell did all the water come from if the planet has been expanding as they claim?

As a physics teacher I find it utterly dumbfounding that some people might actually take this nonsense seriously. How long until we have these nuts demanding "equal time" in Earth science & geology classes?

Anyway, I was wondering where this particular bit of pseudo-scientific woo came from. Since it is a bogus theory of the Earth, I was also wondering if this is in any way related to various forms of creationism?

Has anyone else here heard of this before?
 
I have heard of it before and thought that it was part of the Flat Earth/Hollow Earth crackpot area. But it actually started as a serious suggestion around 1889 (Expanding Earth theory) for continental drift. It is largely discredited now.
 
Over the years, out on the 10-speed, I've noticed the miles -are- getting longer! And the hills getting steeper.
I don't hear any sloshing due to any extra water making the earth larger though, just more huffing and puffing for the same "measured" distance, as the years go by.
 
if everything was expanding, even subatomic bits, would we have any refernce point from which to meaure the expansion?

it feels bigger to me.
 
JEROME DA GNOME said:
How did you determine that it was bogus?

:gnome:
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For one thing, how about the video which shows the ocean water appearing apparently out of nowhere? It starts out covering practically 0% of the Earth and magically expands to cover about 70% as it does today. I'd say that making such a bald-faced assertion without justifying it would count as bogus.

The mechanisms that the EETs propose for this weirdness are... well, let's just call them "special" in that they completely violate known laws of physics :rolleyes:
 
MattusMaximus said:
For one thing, how about the video which shows the ocean water appearing apparently out of nowhere? It starts out covering practically 0% of the Earth and magically expands to cover about 70% as it does today. I'd say that making such a bald-faced assertion without justifying it would count as bogus.
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Dihydrogen Monoxide Auto Genesis?:p
 
Third Eye Open said:
the same way I determined that you are a troll. Observation.
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Thanks for the on-topic insight. :rolleyes:


Do you really think that on a skeptics forum one should be able to just state about an idea "stupid", "nonsense", "pseudo-scientific woo", and "bogus" without offering the reasoning behind these characterizations?


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JEROME DA GNOME said:
Do you really think that on a skeptics forum one should be able to just state about an idea "stupid", "nonsense", "pseudo-scientific woo", and "bogus" without offering the reasoning behind these characterizations?
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Yes. Sometimes the idea is obviously stupid... and if anyone has a doubt about the reasoning, they can always ask.

Now, not replying to a request for clarification or evidence is a no-no.
 
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JEROME DA GNOME said:
Do you really think that on a skeptics forum one should be able to just state about an idea "stupid", "nonsense", "pseudo-scientific woo", and "bogus" without offering the reasoning behind these characterizations?
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I offered you a well-reasoned explanation for why I think this idea is a bogus one - right here, in fact.

Why don't you respond to my criticism instead of going on a derail with these non-sequetirs?
 
MattusMaximus said:
I offered you a well-reasoned explanation for why I think this idea is a bogus one - right here, in fact.

Why don't you respond to my criticism instead of going on a derail with these non-sequetirs?
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Huh?

You answered my question. Then someone accused me of being a troll for asking it.

How is that a non-sequetir by me? Maybe you should ask Third Eye Open why he tried to derail the thread.



Back to the topic: The representation in the video may not be an accurate description of water distribution prior to the expansion.

:gnome:
 
JEROME DA GNOME said:
Back to the topic: The representation in the video may not be an accurate description of water distribution prior to the expansion.

:gnome:
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I find this to be a pretty silly attempt to defend the video. If such a poorly presented video is the best that Neal Adams can do in pushing his bogus (yes, I said "bogus") ideas, then he might as well just hang it up now.

Instead of asking what might or might not be going on inside the video-maker's head, why don't we just deal with the facts at hand? And the primary fact that I'm nitpicking with you is the question of the water.
 
Wow! And here I thought that Hollow Earthers took the laurel for Most Inane Concept of 'geography' that was not creationism. Clearly, I was wrong.

Setting aside for the moment the question of where all that water came from, if the time of the dinosaurs had "only shallow seas"...how did the ocean basins get so big? If the Earth is expanding, the depth of surface features should be decreasing, not increasing.

I'll have to look into the details of this particular silliness more closely, this is a gem. And to think I thought "Aztec Rex" was as silly a concept as a Sci-Fi channel movie could be based on.
 
Where did all the extra water come from?

Heck, that's easy. All you need to do is combine the expanding earth theory with the hollow earth theory.

Originally, we had a planet that essentially consisted of an external crust (with little water), and an internal core of water (separating land from water, as the Holly Bibble says). But mankind sinned. So God brought a great flood upon the earth.

Now, most people focus on the rain in the flood...but the Holly Bibble says that water also poured forth from underground.

So, what happened?

Gawd, in His Ultimate Wisdom, caused the earth to expand. And, in doing so, He caused great fissures to open up in the Earth's crust, and the water that had previously been contained within the interior came gushing out to flood the world.

Now, at first, that water covered the entire planet. But Gawd kept expanding the planet, so that as the waters were forced to cover an ever-increasing area, they also became more shallow, so land became exposed again.

After the flood, we were left with a much larger planet, on which the continents had been separated by the expansion of the planet (as brilliantly demonstrated in the OP's video), and which now had a hollow core (created by a combination of the water rising to earth's surface, and the earth itself increasing in size.

All of this fits 100% with what the Holly Bibble says; furthermore, it goes to demonstrate Gawd's awesome power.

So how can you infidels continue to deny the truth that is laid out so plainly in front of you?





Damn...I oughta' do a YouTube video promoting this theory
 
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