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[mindmetoo]

Actually I don't think he'd claim he's a scientist. Just a comic book artist. Anyway, I was listening to an instalment of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe and they had an interview with Adams. He has this theory that Earth and all the planets are growing from the inside. Basically the earth, moon, everything is hollow (a hollow earth theorist) and internally matter is being created from nothing, causing the planet to expand. To wit, back during the era of the dinosaurs, the earth was much smaller and hence gravity wasn't as strong which let dinosaurs grow very big.

Proof? Well, err, he claims dinosaurs, under present earth gravity, could not exist. They'd collapse under their own weight. This of course is news to paleontologists.

Also Pangaea, the original continent, actually covered the entire, smaller earth. As the earth expanded, it broke the continent apart.

And where did the matter come from? Well, an as yet discovered particle that creates matter out of nothing.

And if the earth is growing and the moon is growing, why is the moon moving away from the earth? The increasing gravity should be moving the two planets together? Well, the sun generates magnetic lines. These magnetic lines are more powerful than gravity. The iron in the moon and earth and all the other planets over come gravity and errr "gravitate" to the magnetic lines...

http://www.nealadams.com/

PseudoScience at its finest. Puts Rteacher to shame. Every scientific discipline has got it 100% wrong. Geology, paleontology, cosmology, physics... dead wrong. The comic book artist has seen through the crap...

Oi.

[SirFink]

This is actually a very old theory. You can trace it way back to centuries ago, at least. Yes, it's hokum, but very old hokum like astrology.

[tomato]

Thanks for the link, Mindmetoo!
I just finished registering on the message board on that Website,
and you will probably see me there.
My moniker will be Tomato there, too.

I love zany astronomical theories.
Here are a few more items in my collection:

the Mormons

The Mormons believe that the Universe is teeming with inhabited planets, each with its own god.
Each of these gods started out as a person who lived a good life, and is therefore being rewarded with Divinity now.

God also rules over another planet.
On that planet, God has a physical body, as do the thousands of lovely goddesses in his harem.
Before coming here, we were all God's children on that planet.

To further our spiritual development, we elected to come here, where we could not see God with our own eyes, and therefore have to accept his existence on faith.

God also rules over another small planet.
On Earth, the North and South Magnetic Poles originally coincided with the North and South Geographic Poles.
But God took a chunk out of this world, creating what is now the Gulf of Mexico, put that chunk in orbit around another sun, and gave it to the Lost Tribes of Israel.

Here's one more goodie about the Mormons, and one which most Mormons don't know about:
In the early days of the church, a magazine interviewed a prominent Mormon who was a close associate of Joseph Smith.
This Mormon quoted Smith as saying that the moon was inhabited by people with an average lifespan of a thousand years.
Adults of both genders grow to an average of six feet tall, and they dress like the Quakers.

When the astronauts landed on the moon and found no sign of life, that was a gleeful day for the anti-Mormons.

the Aetherians

The founding executive of this group is named Sir George King.
He has a hotline with an interplanetary parliament which meets on the planet Venus.
Each of these representatives is Divinely appointed as a "Cosmic Master."
Sir George King has not been appointed for that parliament, because our planet has not become spiritually advanced enough.

Mars and Venus are both inhabited planets, each with a Cosmic Master.
Life on those two planets is on "a higher vibrational frequency."
Whatever that means, it is supposed to explain why we didn't uncover any sign of life in our space probes.

Venus was kind enough to loan us their Cosmic Master in the form of Jesus.
Jesus came on a shiny spaceship, which was seen by us as the Star of Bethlehem.

We should also be grateful to the Cosmic Master from Mars.
A group of invaders came here from the other end of the galaxy, armed with a giant water pump, and intent on destroying all life by draining our ocean basin.
But our trusty hero arrived just in the nick of time, driving an two-mile-long, invisible and radar-proof spaceship.

can't remember the name of this one

At one time in Florida, there was a group of 4000 followers of some whirlybird who believed that the earth is round, but is hollow on the inside.
Instead of living on the outside of the earth, we are all living on the inside of the hollow shell.

The sun, the moon, and all the other celestial bodies are inside the shell.
The sun is in the center and is constantly rotating.
The sun is shiny on one side and opaque on the other side.
When the shiny side is on your side, your side is getting day;
when the opaque side is on your side, your side is getting night.

These last two groups are among Martin Gardner's favorite nut groups.
If you like ridiculous pseudo-science, you MUST read his books.

[mindmetoo]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Leave it to a comic book artist/writer to make the world a lot more cooler than it actually is.

_*_