rectly influenced by ts, as McPed,found tion t “th suddenly made sense.”

    But only up to a point. tribution of continents in former times is muclyresolved t people outside geopextbooks give confident-looking representations of ancient landmasses imes based on conclusions t don’t altogetory of Life, species of plants andanimals from t ly o be w.

    tline of Gond connecting Australia, Africa,Antarctica, and Sout on tribution of a genus ofancient tongue fern called Glossopteris, eris s of t ion to Gondroubling discrepancy inues to be—mostlyignored. Similarly a triassic reptile called Lystrosaurus arctica allto Asia, supporting tion betinents, but iturned up in Soutralia, inent at time.

    tures t tectonics can’t explain. take Denver. It is, aseveryone kno rise is comparatively recent.  of an ocean bottom, many t lo ts are not fractured or deformed in tes, and anyoo far from te edges to besusceptible to tions. It oraise a ruck at te end. Mysteriously and over millions of years, it appears tDenver oo, ion ofit a t any knoed tectonic activity. Australia, meaning and sinking. Over t100 million years as it ed nortos leading edge . It appears t Indonesia is very sloralia do. Notectonics can explain any of this.

    Alfred egener never lived to see ed. On an expedition to Greenland in1930,  out alone, on ieto c a supply drop. urned.

    er, frozen to deat and liest, but about a yard closer to Northe day he died.

    Einstein also failed to live long enougo see t