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A sliver of four-billion-year-old sea floor has offered a glimpse into the inner workings of an adolescent 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. For the full article Click Here .

Thanks Dan. The comment from the article:

"The young Earth was much hotter than now, and as it shed heat, it put many of the tectonic processes into overdrive."

Relates to queries someone had on another thread, is the rate of continental drift slowing down? Seems it probably is. Noah's ark supportes believe it all happened at once in a huge flood. Perhaps we should stay away from that one.

Anyone that wishes to push Noah's ark on us is going to have to explain the following:

1. How you collect them
2. How you get them aboard in less than 30 years
3. How you feed them
4. How you muck out the stalls
5. How the plants survived (remember the plants ... he didn't save any)
6. How you distribute them back to where they belong

Believers in the story of Noah are going to need a lot more than hallucinogenics to get over these hurdles.

I don't think anyone on SAGG believes the story concerns anyone other than a Sumerian farmer with a few livestock on a raft. But stories grow. And perhaps he was a fisherman as well as a farmer. Your original post is good though. Sorry to sidetrack it.