How Earth Resembles a Gooey Confection

Ant contributes a link spotted on Neatorama that may upset middle school Earth Science teachers, writing "LiveScience says Earth's simple schematic is not core, mantle, and crust anymore. It is more like the gooey center of a chocolate morsel harboring peanut butter and honey. Inner Earth is far more nuanced than outward appearances would suggest. A new model is proposed in the May 2, 2008, issue of the journal Science."

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Re:They won't even notice

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, you can't expect teachers to actually keep up with a subject, when it's so much easier to just keep teaching the things everyone 'knows' to be true. I'm amazed they're not still teaching phrenology and spontaneous generation.

They may not teach spontaneous generation but they teach spontaneous creation despite all its flaws and assumptions (which aren't discussed of course to keep it the 'perfect' theory). It's called evolution.