Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on November 1, 1880 and received a doctorate in astronomy in 1904. However, Wegener had always been fascinated by climatology and meteorology. (According to ucmp.berkeley.edu) In the fall of 1911, Wegener was browsing in the Marburg University library and found a scientific article listing fossils of identical animals and plants found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. With further research he was able to demonstrate that his theory of “continental drift” might have been true. Continental drift explains how parts of the Earth's crust can slowly drift over a liquid core, causing all the continents to split apart once they have formed as a single continental mass. Although Wegener was not the first scientist to demonstrate that all continents were connected at some point in time, he was the first to demonstrate that this was plausible with evidence. This is why I agree that continental drift is true, that there were fossils of the same organisms on opposite sides of the Atlantic, same rock layers in South Africa and Brazil, and that the fossils found in certain areas might ...