In the beginning all present continents were once together and collectively known as a 'super continent' called a Pangaea. This land was surrounded by water, like one big island Gen 1:9, (except for 4 rivers Gen 2:10-14). And, the Land of Cush, Gen 2:13 NIV (also called Ethiopia and Sheba) was made up of what we refer today as: Ethiopia, Somalia, and Yemen!

After the flood (Gen 7:17), the land began to separate (Gen 10:25). In the process Yemen gradually began to separate from Ethiopia and Somalia.

During the reign of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, the separation was probably small similar to a brook, and her domain ‘Sheba’ included today’s Ethiopia, Somalia, and Yemen.

Over the span of time, these little divider lines / bodies of water have expand forming what we now call continents. Today, Ethiopia and Somalia are located in NE Africa and Yemen in South Arabia, separated by a body of water called the Red Sea!

Supporting Evidence:
Continental Coastlines:
1. Continental coastlines appearing to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. This helps to prove that these continents were once joined together as one whole Pangaea and broke away to form these two land masses now.

2. Fossil Distribution: (Map depicts Chameleon fossil remains found primarily in Africa and Yemen)
Matching fossil of reptiles have been found in Africa and South America, further proving that these two continents were actually so close to each other or even joined, that reptiles could travel to and fro between them easily. Identical fossil ferns have also been found in all southern continents, and also embedded in the same layer sequence, suggesting the proximity the southern continents were in millions of years ago that allowed the growing of these ferns in the same climate and soil.

3. Distinctive Rock Strata:
Geologists have discovered that the geological structures of the rocks in South West Africa and South East Brazil were distinctively identical, and the age of the rocks at these two areas was the same. This distinctive rock strata shared by the two land masses suggests that these two areas were once joined together.

4. Coal Distribution:
Coal can be found underneath the cold and dry Antarctic ice cap, though coal can only form in warm and wet conditions. This could mean that Antarctica was once together with the other continents as part of the Pangaea, and was once in a warm and humid region. Coal was formed before Antarctica drifted away to its present cold and dry climate. That is why the coal can be found buried under the thick layer of ice and snow.

Edwin Beckford, 2/04