Fixed immovable continents is a theory that has reasonable prediction power: if you assume that, you can do lots of things without having results that are too inaccurate to be worth calculating. That is not true of the kinds of highly-specific theories that people seem to be more prone to come up with in some fields. The kinds of things that even fairly recent &quot;science&quot; in fields such as psychology and (sadly, all too often) medicine reads more like &quot;the world is balanced on the back of a tortoise&quot; or &quot;there is an evil genie that makes things fall to the ground; his name is Fred and he wears a black cape&quot; than &quot;continents are fixed&quot; or &quot;physics is deterministic, particulate, and local&quot;.