I wonder how the Discovery Institute is parsing this news story? Probably hoping that the U.S. corporate media doesn't pick up the story. Maybe Noah planted the ocean floor evidence as part of his voyage?
Sea floor records ancient Earth :
A sliver of four billion year old seafloor shows the earliest known evidence of plate tectonics on Earth.
The baked and twisted rocks, now part of Greenland, show the earliest evidence of plate tectonics, colossal movements of the planet's outer shell.Until now, researchers were unable to say when the process, which explains how oceans and continents form, began.
The unique find, described in the journal Science, shows the movements started soon after the planet formed.
“Since the plate tectonic paradigm is the framework in which we interpret all modern-day geology, it is important to know how far back in time it operated,” said Professor Minik Rosing of the University of Copenhagen and one of the authors of the paper.
Professor John Valley, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison described the work as “significant” and “exciting”. “If these observations are substantiated it will be a significant line of new evidence indicating that plate tectonics was active and familiar as early as 3.8 billion years ago,” he said
Better bow down to the Standard White Jesusas Timbuk3 sang
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