Title text:
It’s great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3258/
Title text:
It’s great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3258/
Plate tectonics was only accepted in the sixties (but I doubt your story was that long ago). I don’t know what it is about geologists that makes them drop the ball so hard.
Relevant xkcd
They knew about continental drift before that. They just didn’t know the mechanism.
Oh, this was the mid-late 90s.
That’s about right though - Christianity is generally a couple of decades behind while making up excuses
(was raised in some silly churches)