Comments on: Plate Tectonics Is Only a Theory

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:40:34 +0000

Outside the US? Did you mean the UK? I assume so but you can check here http://www.bbcshop.com. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t at least a drop-shipping arrangement in place for the US.

By: Ed Darrell

Ed Darrell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:17:19 +0000

Okay, I’m having difficulty finding those programs on DVD. Are they available outside the U.S.?

By: Secret Wombat

Secret Wombat — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:07:10 +0000

Bravo, EW.
I couldn’t agree more with this: “it’s really a CRIME of some sort that most people, apparently, have no idea, not just of the history of the earth, but of the way that science works.”

It’s such an enriching way of seeing the world — the opposite of the cold, soulless outlook that some would have you believe. I think that, when one really understands scientific thinking, it’s hard not to feel compelled by it. Thinking about things like Darwin’s work regularly sends shivers down my spine, and, I think, always will.

By: Roads

Roads — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:42:19 +0000

Fantastically written, Wombats. We’ll make a geologist of you yet.

Although I didn’t realise it until some years later, I was destined to become a geologist myself shortly after watching The Restless Earth - a BBC documentary which I had stayed up late to watch one night at the age of 10.

Three decades on (and more) and my enthusiasm hasn’t waned.

Plate tectonics is a wonderfully beautiful and unifying piece of science, and as a geologist and a humble inhabitant of such a brief moment in the history of this planet, it continues to amaze and enthrall me, each and every day.

Thanks.