No one should doubt that Stuart Murray et al. are promoters
of absolutely breathtaking nonsense (such as this),
but they are also primarily Canadians and hence disqualified.
Lawrence S. Myers qualifies on all counts, however. Myers is
an internet kook and defender of the hilariously silly Expanding Earth hypothesis. He defends his view on his website expanding-earth.org,
which is characterized by the usual internet kook’s peculiar affection for
unusual color schemes, font combinations, and unorthodox capitalization.
According to Myers, he has “PROOF of Earth’s growth and expansion.” The proof
in question is a map of the Earth 200 million years ago that Myers has
interpreted himself (he also has to reject the generally accepted age of the
earth to make his hypothesis work). At least his sentences are generally
grammatical and semantically coherent, which is a step up from the usual
standards achieved for this brand of pseudoscience.
There is a fine deconstruction of the expanding earth
hypothesis, or subduction denialism, in three parts here,
here,
and here,
showing pretty well how absolutely stunningly crazy the idea actually is. And
no – although Myers has some cherry-picked quotes and assertions, he has of
course not attempted to develop a unified theory that even begins to explain
any of the phenomena such a theory would need to explain. But we’re not really
waiting.
Diagnosis: Babbling internet kook. Probably harmless.
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