Plate Tectonics

The Earth is alive, and I don’t just mean with people. Plate Tectonics was the core discovery that allows us to understand the origin of earthquakes and volcanoes (which are rather important in my part of the world), geological history, the fossil record, geomagnetism and more. We really DO understand how our planet formed, how it evolved, and how it works.

You know, it doesn’t take much understanding of geology to see that Creationism is absolutely laughable. Or it would be if it didn’t keep ending up in school curricula... Here’s an elegant reminder that the world is a real, dynamic, evolving planet, and was NOT created in 6 days (2.7MB JPEG):
http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/data/ftp/dtam.jpg

Reference: http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/