On January 6, 1912, thirty-one-year-old German meteorologist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the Geological Association in Frankfurt, arguing that continents had once been joined in a supercontinent and gradually drifted apart. He offered compelling evidence: South America and Africa fit together like puzzle pieces, identical fossils appeared on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, matching rock formations spanned continents now separated by thousands of miles. The geological establishment responded with mockery and contempt, calling his ideas "delirious ravings" and warning young scientists that interest in continental drift would doom their careers. The rejection was both justified and wrong. Justified because Wegener proposed mechanisms centrifugal force and astronomical precession that were physically impossible. Bad because the observational evidence was overwhelming and accurate. Wegener died in 1930 on a Greenland expedition, his theory still rejected. Twenty years later, new technologies revealed seafloor spreading and tectonic plates, confirming Wegener's fundamental insight while disproving his proposed mechanisms. By the 1960s, continental drift had become plate tectonics, the unifying theory of geology. This episode explores how revolutionary ideas challenge scientific consensus, why demanding mechanisms are reasonable but dismissing evidence is dangerous, how outsiders sometimes see what experts miss, and why the scientific method works over time even when nobody has the complete picture. It examines the tension between healthy skepticism and closed-minded gatekeeping, why personal attacks masquerading as scientific criticism harm progress, and how we evaluate extraordinary claims when the evidence is compelling but the explanation is wrong.