Did Giant Comet Help Hobbits Reach Flores?

OilIsMastery is hereby officially warned that posting deliberate distortions of this kind again will result in a ban from sciforums.

 

They prove no such thing, only that you're lazy, ignorant, or a habitual liar.

No they don't. They prove that these continents were seperated by, at most, narrow, shallow seas, therefore not impossible.

That's funny, because there's also biogeographical arguments for continental drift.

This is simple ignorance on your part, and a misrepresentation of the facts. The simple truth is that Plate tectonics does have a mechanism for the breakup of Pangea.

Plate Tectonics (as it currently stands) posits that mantle convective cells, and plumes are mobile, rather than fixed, they can start and stop. It also posits that when you have a supercontinent, for example Pangea, the number of active spreading centers is at a minimum. Not only that, but because Continental crust is thicker, and less dense than Oceanic crust, has a lower temperature gradient, and is a better thermal insulator than oceanic crust, and so a super contintent provides more effective insulation to the mantle than a series of many small continents, so, heat builds up under the super continent, until it reaches a point sufficient to initiate rafting within if (again).

No, again, you're lying, because part of Alfred Wegeners original evidence for plate tectonics included biogeographical evidence.

Yes, according to the maps I provided.

Aaah No. How does no sound. Is no Good for you?

All you've done, is prove, yet again, that your grasp of the english language is questionable. Most people would, or should have questioned the use of the word China in that sentence, especially in regard to the context of the previous paragraph in which I discussed the lack of marsupials in India which at this time is seperated from the rest of pangea by deep ocean.

This was a simple error on my part, that sentence was supposed to be a succint summary of the previous paragraph, as should have been readily apparent from it's context. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused you, and have corrected the error.

So you're saying that rather than being a liar you're ignorant, and lazy, and don't bother doing even basic fact checking that was as simple as opening two wiki pages?

 

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You're lying about what i've said.

I stated that currently it's believed they evolved in North America (not China).

Your argument is a straw man one.

You're arguing that i'm suggesting that the migration must have been across tethys or the paleo pacific, when, as shown above, this is a blatant misrepresentation of what I actually stated.

Namely that Marsupials are believed to have evolved in North America.
North America is seperated from Europe by a shallow, narrow sea (or land bridge).
Europe is seperated from asia by a narro shallow sea (or Land bridge).
North America is seperated from South america by a narrow shallow sea (or land bridge).
South America is seperated from Antartica by a narrow shallow sea (or a land bridge).

Europe, North America, South America, China, and Australia are all places we have found fossils of Marsupials.

I don't imagine that there has been much in the way of fossil anything found in antartica because with it's current climate it doesn't exactly lend itself to that sort of expedition.

So, to recap, you're lying about what i've said, and what the scientific literature claims.

You're claiming that because the palopacific and Tethys exist, there can not have been any migration, while completely ignoring three simple facts.

One of the maps I posted clearly shows a series of island chains between what is now Southeast Asia, and Australia.
On all of the maps that I have posted, all of the continents where we have found fossil marsupials were, in the cretacous linked by a series of narrow, shallow seas.
The scientific literature holds that Marsupials evolved in North America, not China.

 

Ugh, again, your distorting what i've said.

We have found a fossil in china that's 125 million years old. That alone doesn't prove they evolved there, it may simply prove that Marsupials evolved earlier than currently believed.

And no, not believed by me, as you would know if you had actually bothered doing any fact checking for yourself before you started making these unsubstantiated claims.

 

Your distorting my argument, and lying about what i've said.

I've already addressed this point.

Be honest, or go away.

 

Either you're a liar or an idiot.

I frame no Hypothesis, because no hypothesis is neccessary.

My Hypothesis, seeing as how you insist on either lying about what i've said, or are too stupid to figure it out for yourself, is that, to my knowledge, the migration didn't take place via the pacific ocean, but either through the continental land masses that made up the western margin of the Tethys sea, or through the island chains that formed the eastern margin of the tethys sea (or by both routes).

 

The only person here making religous claims is you.

The land masses I would be referring to are the ones indicated by this map:

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Which was included as part of this post:

http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=2106801&postcount=100

Which successfully demonstrated that you are a liar.

 

Again. You're being dishonest, about both the NAU maps, and about my posts.

At no poiint have I claimed that there were land bridges of Island chains linking south america and china.

What I did say, was that there is an island chain between South east asia and Australia, along the eastern margin of the Tethys sea, this is quite clearly indicated both in your map, and in the map I have already provided.

I also stated that:

Australia is connected to Antartica
Antartica is connected to South America by either a narrow, shallow sea, or a land bridge.
South America is connected to North America by either a narrow shallow sea, or a land bridge.
North America is conencted to Europe by either a narrow shallow sea, or a land bridge.
Europe is connected to Northern China by either a narrow shallow sea, or a land bridge.

My proposed route would then be:
China -> Europe -> Nth America -> Sth America ->Antarctica ->Australia
Or:
China -> Sth East Asia -> Island Chain -> Australia.

So, i'm suggesting that the migration could have happened along the eastern, or western edges of the Thethys ocean.

You on the other hand are being blatantly deceitful and dishonest and misrepresenting my statements.