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Originally Posted by Neverfly
Direct observation:
Subduction.
Shear Zones.
Measured Observation: No change in Earths radius in the last 620 million years. This limits the time during which the Earth could have expanded to prior to that.
Crustal movement indicates that the continents were much closer together even 78 - 90 million years ago than they are today. Making continental drift due to expansion extremely unlikely.
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Subduction could be due to contraction and shear zones could be due to general stretching and squashing of the crust as we inflate and deflate.
However the latter points are seriously in the way of expanding/contracting Earth. The evidence for crustal movement may have to be successfully challenged with an at least plausible alternative since the unified theory states Earth expanded with its Flora and Fauna and contracted similarly.
This response is by far the most sensible challenge to the UTE so far
I think I tackle the continental movement second if you don't mind (since I think that is an issue more open to interpretation) and challenge the ultimate deal-breaker.
No change in the Earth's radius fór 620 m years. That crushes ECE. Now - how do we know this is true? (None of us were around then so we must be interpreting a derivative of that period.)