Anyway, back on topic: I find the headline sensationalist. The tectonic plates have been shifting for millions billions of years, so it's hardly surprising.
FTFY. Little details are important. Chunks of crust have been floating around on the magma currents since the first thin skins solidified on the molten surface of the proto-Earth.
The '6000 year old Earth' line is useful for one thing - spotting people whose understanding of the nature of the Universe is about as reality-based as a My Little Pony episode. Cognitive distortions that could only arise through complete ignorance or rejection of multiple whole fields of science - geology, physics, archaeology, chemistry, astrophysics, oceanography, etc.
What do these people think when they see things like the maps of ocean crustal expansion fault lines, and subduction zones? Maps of the alternating ancient magnetic field orientations frozen into the basalt solidified along the expansion lines, recording hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history just like a magnetic tape recorder? Isotopic aging down though billions of years of sedimentary strata? Carbon-14 dating of fossils? Age estimates of the Moon based purely on impact crater accumulation? An endless list... Do they think all this is just made up? Or the pathetic "God put this stuff there to fool us"?
As usual with all the bizarre belief systems, I tend to think a few of the people involved have to be lying, for whatever reasons, while others are just gullible. Same as with Scientology - a core of originators who fabricate the scriptures, and the rest just sucked into the cult. Through not having the mental tools to spot falsehoods and resist social programming from those with whom they associate, and from the information channels they frequent. And zero habit of digging for information in alternate sources, for cross-checking.
Hmm... now where do we see other examples of that today?
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the ILLUSION of knowledge."
-- Daniel Boorstin
"There is a principle, which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
-- Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
"The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."
-- Salman Rushdie
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence. An observation by the late Director at his first staff meeting in 1981.
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