Another Day, Another Crackpot theory

Well, many of you know that since I read Desmond Morris' "The Naked Ape" I have been completely enamored with the "Water Ape" Theory.

This theory states that we humans, during that time when we were apes, descended from the trees, and then, instead of walking on the savannah, we got into the water... The theory has some very good points... the most damning of the points being that humans can swim immediately after birth, but can't walk... much less take care of themselves on land for more than 2 years. Humans also have hair like a seal all over their bodies (very tiny except in key places). And fat that is distributed under the skin, like a whale or a seal, not around the internal organs like an ape. Also... we are the only primates that can control our breathing... the other primates, they drown in water. In fact, very few animals can control their breathing... the vast majority of the animals that can... live in the water.

And, of course, it has been disputed by science not because it's a bad theory, but because the woman who came up with it was a crackpot.

So, for 40 years, the standing theory in science is that humans were apes in trees, then one day they climbed down, lost their hair, stood upright, started to control their breathing, had babies that couldn't even run from predators, got amazing dexterity control, and were humans... no reason for these changes... they just were.

...And then Science goes off to laugh at the Christian Creation theories...

You may also know my absolute hatred for the "Pangaea" Theory (For those not in the know, Pangaea is the theory that all the continents were once fitted together into a "Supercontinent" called "Pangaea" which lived on the left side of the planet). My problem being that things in space form (Roughly) spheres... not spheres with a big lump on the left side... Pangaea was a violation of the general laws of gravity and the nature of space...

But last night I was led to an answer to Pangaea that I could believe in...

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/81096/detail/

The theory was first put forth (Like the Water Ape theory) in the 60's by a fellow named S. Warren Carey.

Here's the theory; the Earth has been growing since the creation. The continents were all once connected... but they were all connected together... the planet had no oceans (That's not true, but the oceans were in a different place... inland).

The video talks a little about how this theory works, and it should be noted that I really don't buy the timeline...

But put in a larger timeline, and fitted with a modified (Heavily) creation model, I think I like it better than any other Creation Earth model I have experienced (Isn't that arrogant? Erm... please take that in the manor of which I meant it :D);

Here we go:

Starting with the "Cooling Disk" theory of creation, we lived in a Birthing Nebula, like the one in the Belt of Orion. Inside this nebula, a disk of material formed, spinning around a central point. This point will ultimately become the sun... for now, though, it is just a disk-y mass.

Five distinct masses begin to separate themselves in the disk, the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, along with a whole mess of smaller pieces of material which has no home.

At this time, the sun is huge, and not quite making nuclear fusion really well, but it has a lot of mass, so the other four planets orbit it... Jupiter orbits really close to the Suns' surface.

Time passes, and the Sun shrinks, putting a lot of pressure on the materials inside it, which then pass the Coulomb barrier (The point where the electrostatic force that keeps atoms away from each other is overcome). The sun then goes "live" and lights up, making a solar system of four planets and a whole bunch of junk.

The junk starts to fall toward the sun and towards Jupiter... and gravity forces them to form a "Ring" around the sun akin to Saturn’s rings. The rings form 4 distinct bands, An "A" Ring, which is thin from being swept into the sun, a "B" and "C" ring, which, separated by a gap, are rich with the junk at the center of the system, and a "D" ring, of which material is constantly falling into Jupiter.

Time passes, and inside the rings, the rocks are forming planets... small ones at first... probably started by a large asteroid which, being the biggest thing in the ring, starts to sweep up the rest of the ring during its orbit of the sun. Before long (Galactically speaking), the rings disappear, leaving four planets; Planet "A" is small, most of the material being swept into the sun, Planets B and C are the same size, being part of the inner rings, not stolen from... planet D is also small, having its ring material being stolen by Jupiter... but Jupiter is smaller than the Sun, so the D is not as tiny as A.

Pressure on that initial asteroid that formed these planets, becomes intense... and deep within these planets cores, the rocks too pass the Coulomb barrier and become molten, heating up the mass of rock from the inside... And when something heats up, it expands.

All four of these little planets then begin to expand... ice and gasses that were part of the ring of matter that is now a planet start to boil to the surface, heavier metals start to sink to the core. This is a great sifting process for the planets. Soon you have all kinds of interesting layers of material; heavy metals at the core, light metals on the surface, mixed with heavy liquids, and then gasses on top of all of that... Poof, you have a living breathing planet...

But more telling than that is the fact that the crust has been expanding, like a cookie in the oven, the crust has cracked and popped apart, allowing new crust to form underneath it. The new crust (Like those on your cookie in the oven) is deeper into the planet... the planet, having an atmosphere, prevents what little junk is left in the system from filling those holes... so they remain, like wounds... Water fills the holes on Earth and Mars...

Time passes again, and now you have life forming on Earth and maybe elsewhere, but the four planets are still, slowly, expanding... but Mercury runs out of space inside it... the atoms pass back through the Coulomb barrier, and Mercury's core goes cold. A little while later, Mars, also being on the smallish side, follows suit, losing it's ocean and it's atmosphere, neither one being replenished from the boiling gasses in the crust. Earth and Venus, though, are larger, and still have some growing to go... so they haven't gone cold yet.

This theory intrigues me... and, like the water ape theory before it, it was abandoned in the 70's by science... even though (As the video shows with the ages of the ocean floor) it does seem that newer science is supporting this theory (the plates on the planet are moving away from the Atlantic and the Pacific... not just the Atlantic as Pangaea maintains... it's hard to have a supercontinent that lived in one place but came from two places).... There doesn't seem to be a reason for this abandonment... it just was... and now we teach Pangaea... Which violates the laws of nature...

The Japanese have nothing on Science for being stubborn about something even when all the evidence points away from the theory.

Hmm...

---Me