a weird question?

Question

okay so scientists have taught that the earth was all together ,(all of the continents, ) and thats why they have the structure they have, but somehow im not agreeing with this , if in fact there was an earthquake, shouldn't it be more tore up instead of looking like a puzzle ? the earth shifts all the time , bringing the continents closer , so when they collide , would it not be easier for them to form into each other .

Answer 1

Hey Kris, they have proven that the continents were all one land mass at one time. For example, the western coast line of Africa has the same soil type and substrate as the eastern coast line of South America. And it is the same for all the other continents and islands when matched together.. This earthquake is talked about in the bible in Genesis around the time of Pan. It says a "great earthquake" came as never seen before. Revelations says, that the same type of earthquake will come again, only this time mountains and islands will dissappear. The Lord revealed to me the United States was split into 3 pieces. California fell off into the ocean all the way up to Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Washington. There was a huge canyon where Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska up to Minnesota. The eastern seaboad was gone.

Answer 2

How scientists came to that conclusion is not explained very often. Follow this link and read about Alfred Wegener the man who came up with the theory of continental drift and how he came to that conclusion.

http://www.pangaea.org/wegener.htm

One thing to consider when looking at the continents today is that the ocean between North and South America and Africa and Europe is spreading apart so the land masses would look simlar since neither of those tectonic plates are pushing into each other. If you look at the continents on the pacific ocean where there are greater amounts of subduction going on (one plate sinking beneath another) the boundaries look almost nothing like each other since they have been more distorted by the creation of mountain ranges such as the Andes and parts of the Rockies just as examples.

There was likely more ice at the poles as well so the boundaries you see today dont totally represent whats going on at the 'pangea' boundaries themselves since they are now partially underwater.

Answer 3

The damage cause by an earthquake is quite local, but the continental "puzzle pieces" fit together on a larger scale. If you actually try to match the coastlines of Africa and South America, they won't match PERFECTLY, because of the local destruction caused by the tearing apart, but on a larger scale, they do fit pretty well.

Answer 4

" shouldn't it be more tore up instead of looking like a puzzle ?"

Take a sheet of paper and randomly tear it into 7 parts. It will naturally "look like a puzzle" because all the parts have to form back together to form the whole.

Answer 5

They do, the indian subcontinent for instance collided with Asia some time ago, thrusting up the earth which created the Himalaya mountains.

Answer 6

Yes but Africa ans South America are moving apart

Answer 7

I think that....scientists know what they're doing. o.O