# Any objectors to continental drift ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567 "2005-01-31T10:08:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/21 "2005-02-01T21:06:06Z")
> [@Erroneous](#): > > Here’s a pro-expanding earth article from 2003. > > McCarthy, Dennis (2003). ‘The trans-Pacific zipper effect: disjunct sister taxa and matching geological outlines that link the Pacific margins’. Journal of Biogeography, 30, 1545–1561. Grateful for this reference. Disjunct taxa in birds and plants have always fascinated me. That’s one reason I’m familiar with plate tectonics. I know of many publications on biogeography but few if any deal with trans-Pacific cases. I’m looking forward to see MacCarthy’s paper. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/22 "2005-02-01T21:09:59Z")
**GeoDude** I’ve printed your post. It’ll keep me contented for a long while! ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/23 "2005-02-01T21:26:55Z")
**Mangetout, Erroneous** , I’ll add S. Warren Carey to my list of admired people. They are very few: Croizat in biogeography, Koonrad Elst in history of Indo-Europeans… ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/24 "2005-02-01T21:28:31Z")
Remember kids, continental drift is just a theory, like evolution, atoms, relativity, and gravity. Don’t get me started on gravity. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/25 "2005-02-01T22:12:25Z")
I’m glad I’m not the only one picturing protesters with signs along the beach, chanting: “Hell, no, we won’t go!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/26 "2005-02-01T22:50:34Z")
It gets France further away from us? Who’d object to _that?_ ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/27 "2005-02-01T23:06:06Z")
> [@SavageNarce](#): > > Well, when you can go to a place like the San Andreas Fault and mount measuring equipment on either side to actually see the drift occurring, it makes it a little hard to say it doesn’t exist. 😉 [I’m convinced.](http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/along2.html) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567/28 "2005-02-02T03:50:55Z")
> [@Gymnopithys](#): > > **Mangetout, Erroneous** , I’ll add S. Warren Carey to my list of admired people. They are very few: Croizat in biogeography, Koonrad Elst in history of Indo-Europeans… Add Geoffrey Burbidge in cosmology to your list of academic iconoclasts, as we discussed in this [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296224) on quasars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-objectors-to-continental-drift/287567.md?page=1)