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And I think it does help using a more neutral phrase, rather than "continental drift." And the evidence Alfred Wegener presented was considerable, such as fossils of a freshwater reptile found in both South Africa and South America.

But Wegener seemed to believe that the lighter continents slowly drifted through the denser oceanic crust, much like icebergs might drift through heavier sea water. And that's just not the way it works. And perhaps inevitably, the criticism focused on this, rather than the considerable evidence that something or the other had caused the continents to move a very large amount over time.

Now, it may not have made a difference since geologists objected to Wegener because his training and experience was in other fields (astronomy and meteorology) and because he was a science popularizer, much like there was professional jealousy to Carl Sagan several generations later.

But I can't help wondering, what if Alfred Wegener focused on the evidences, and just briefly went over a variety of possible mechanisms acknowledging there were problems with each?
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