Re: the inconvenience to EE of subduction observed in the real world and expansion not so observed

"On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:04:35 -0700, in article
<1188482675.970089.327080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kermit stated..."

On Aug 30, 6:35 am, "louan...@xxxxxxxxx" <louan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 29, 5:24 pm, Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trying to defend a _single_ usage of a _two letter_
acronym against all other claimants is an exercise
in futility every bit as silly as trying to proclaim
that earth has been expanding since dragonflies were
large, in pretense that they were instead tiny:

Okay, granted. But surely _some_ "alternative" ideas are so lame that
we're entitled to ignore them. Expanding earth is several credibility
points below Flat Earth, and we don't beat them into dead-horse pate.

We don't, but then they don't come here offering pseudo-evidence to
support this assertion, either. Those of them who are not jokesters
seem to be fairly honest religious fanatics, and do not pretend that
their ideas stand without their bible.

<sigh>

Now watch them start showing up, just to prove me an idiot.

I don't recall any flat-earthers, other than jokesters, posting here.

I wonder whether there were ever more than a handful of serious
members of the Flat Earth Society. The president, Charles K.
Johnson, was undoubtedly serious about it.

But almost all of these "unconventional" ideas are just plain
boring. The one exception that I make is the "inside the hollow
earth" theory of Cyrus Reed Teed:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_earth#Concave_hollow_Earths>


--
---Tom S.
"... to call in a special or miraculous act of creation reduces every
conceivable world to accident."
Jacob Bronowski, in "American Scholar" v.43 (1974) page 400

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