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In Geology there are many facts. It is always interesting how many different people can take the same facts, learned through scientific observation and come to totally different conclusions. Twenty years ago nobody would have believed that the Medditerean sea (sorry about my spelling) has repeatily dried up to the point where it was very similiar to the Death Valley of CA. They know for a fact since its bottom has been cored and the same evaporite minerals and surface structures can be found in these cores. There is no other way they could have formed. People know it has happened but they don't really know how. Something I always remember, I call it the story of Wegner. When Wegner first proposed the theory he called Continental drift which has since evolved to Plate Tectonics he was laughed at and ostricized by the scientific community of his day. Anyone who tried to teach it risk being fired or not hired at all. Many jobs were lost by those who first championed the theory. Now practically every Geoscientist believes it, some of whom are just as dogmatic in their beliefs. Todays wacky idea could be tomorrows commonly held belief.