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Originally Posted by Jerry
I'm very uncomfortable with this...I don't see 'Is the earth growing?' as an ATM concept.
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Right, the way you've phrased it, it's a question, not a concept. "The earth is/has been growing" is a concept, and it is currently ATM, no doubt about it.
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1) This is a curious observational phenomenon. Is there an ATM theory that explains or predicts this?
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The Expanding Earth concept was heavily promoted by one of the most tireless advocates of Wegener's continental drift--he became disillusioned with drift.
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2) I don't know of any mainstream concepts that would forbid the earth from being in a period of expansion.
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There is no data that unequivocally supports it.
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3) The data in-hand is ambiguous - The tectonic plates do have stretch marks, and satellites have measured an increase in the global girth.
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The plates also have compression marks. The satellite data is still equivocal.
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Most important, the data is coming in on this subject all the time - a 30 day timer is very inappropriated for a topic that is actively being investigated.
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The 30 day timer is inappropriate, period. It appears to be the result of a frustrated response to overzealous promotion of individual theories.
This website has limited resources, and its main mission is weakened by its support for ATM, to the extent that ATM draws on a disproportionate share of those resources.
PS: And, as
captain swoop says, this discussion shouldn't happen here.