Conduct this simple experiment AT HOME in your spare time.
Fill one 5 gallon pail with water.
Fill one 5 gallon pail with ANY load of rocks, pebbles, sand, powdered cement or concrete.
Does the pail of water weigh MORE or LESS than the pail of rocks?
Now, if you believe that the weight of the ocean water is pressing down to make deep ocean basins and the same amount of rock on the continents is doing nothing, then please answer the following question...
If rock is heavier than water, then WHY haven't the continents plunged straight down to the center of the Earth? What's holding them up? The continents should be sinking because they are heavier. The oceans should be covering the continents because water is lighter than rock. Please explain why this hasn't happened.
(:raig
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