What I find more interesting is that plate tectonics act at a rate of 2cm to 5cm a year: Yet, MIRACULOUSLY, New Zealand remains in the same exact place Cook found it, clearly demonstrating the LIE perpetuated by RE! You need to go tell Google to update the Earth in order to account for tectonics. Also tell all the textbook publishers to update their material... LOL!
ANOTHER FE VICTORY!
So in 200 years or so you'd expect a shift in position of perhaps 4m in some direction or other, or in other words about 0.1 arcseconds in latitude (if we're saying a N-S shift for example). I'm not entirely sure I would say I could spot a 0.1 arcsecond shift between this map and current Google maps. Do you have some other reason to claim that New Zealand is in the exact same position?
Secondly, I don't see a connection between plate tectonics and the shape of the earth. Are you saying if plate tectonic shift does not occur then this proves the earth is flat? I have a basketball in my garage and I have never had any tectonic shift problems with it. Does this mean it must be flat too (maybe it just needs pumping up)?
0.1 degrees works out to approximately 10kms so it looks like everything still checks out. Total Lackey, we forgive your excitement to yell GOTCHA!
A) I didn't provide the longitudes reference the map of Cook and Google Earth.
It was the OP:
This one is interesting (chart below). Cook’s map of New Zealand, which he charted in the 1770s. At first I thought Cook had got it completely wrong. Look at Cape Reinga (Google 34.4S, 172.7E), the northern tip of the north island. Cook has 187.3 longitude which seems completely wrong, until I realised that in those days they stated longitude as west of Greenwich meridian, whereas the modern convention is to state as east. If you subtract 187.3 from 360 you get 172.7E, which agrees perfectly with Google.
2) The OP states the map provided by Cook and current Google Earth, "
...agrees perfectly...It is the OP stating New Zealand is in the
exact same position, down to the tenth of a degree.
According to RE, 0
0 has been 0
0 and has been known for some time.
Funny, all the PRECISE TECHNOLOGY touted by RE proponents in support of the globe (high resolution imagery and extremely accurate GPS courtesy of these amazing satellites), cannot detect the longitudinal change of an island the size of New Zealand or even entire continents over the course of 250 years. GPS has an accuracy of, "... a range of three to five meters, or up to 16 feet away."
GPS will be accurate within one foot in some phones next yearBy
Jacob Kastrenakes@jake_k Sep 25, 2017, 2:32pm EDThttps://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/25/16362296/gps-accuracy-improving-one-foot-broadcomWell, we are a year away from the time the article was written. Yeah, looks like another flying car to me...LOL!
So, no...FE STILL WINS!!!