Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / December 2004

Interesting?  Or just plain crazy???

It says:

"The new theory -- building on Prof Carey’s ideas that the Earth is
expanding -- suggests that when the dinosaurs first began to appear
248 million years ago, Earth was a much smaller planet than it is
today and had a much weaker gravity.

"The theory suggests it was the weaker gravity that encouraged animals
to develop to a gigantic size and enabled dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus
Rex to weigh seven tonnes and tower 6.5 metres.

"Prof Carey was the foundation Professor of Geology at the University
of Tasmania and became internationally famous in the 1960s for his
theories on "continental drift" and global tectonics. In the 1970s, he
broadened his theories to suggest that tectonic plates move because
the Earth is continually expanding.

"Today the theory of an expanding Earth is still a minority view but
Stephen Hurrell, an engineering designer at Britain’s Electricity
Research Centre, has given it new currency."

To say that "the theory of an expanding Earth is still a minority
view" is putting it mildly.  It is a view held perhaps by one or two
people.  I'll believe it when the physicists and the geologists show
me where the matter comes from to increase the size of the earth to
any appreciable degree.  Yes, there is a constant shower of meteorite
dust, but of totally inconsequential total mass.