Scientific theories take years or decades to convince the minds of scientists. This became evident when scientist, Alfred Wegener presented the most significant geological theory of history. His model was the idea of continental drift, the strong argument that the continents had moved relative to each other in the past few hundred million years. His idea was eventually accepted by many geoscientists, but before the acceptance at the time there was immense antipathy towards his theory. Wegener lacked the ability to prove his theory; therefore the reaction of his model was aggressive and harsh. Dr. Rollin T. Chamberlin from the University of Chicago said, “Wegener’s hypothesis in general is of the footloose type, in that it takes considerable …show more content…
Charles Schuchert, an American palaeontologist supported the hypothesis of “Land Bridges”. Land bridges are the meaning of slim section of land that connects two large masses of rock continents across the ocean, leading to the paleontological observation of the same fossils across different continents. Schuchert believed that these land bridges are what connected the Southern Hemisphere at certain points in the past, and to what connects South and North America today. To agree with the philosophy concept of uniformitarianism, it is believed that the earth was cooling and the process caused sea levels to rise which have now covered the land bridges today. Schuchert was aware that his hypothesis had to be connected with geophysical principles; Bailey Willis an American geologist helped Schuchert to prove how the inter-continental formed these links. Wegener also proposed the existence of temperate specie fossils that were found in the arctic regions, this idea was proposed that this was due to the warm water currents. Since there is now proven to be more than one way to explain the continental permanence, most American geologist followed Schuchet and denied Wegener’s