Can someone explain this question in depth? My anticipation was no proof=no confirmation, or something can be accepted if proved. I was not sure how the correct answer was chosen.
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For this type of question, the right answer will be something that is basically a general description of what happened in the passage. Therefore I would start by just trying to give myself a high level summary of the passage.
Here we have a theory that is initially discounted because it didn't fully explain the mechanism, but was later accepted because it describes the world correctly even if we haven't fully understood the mechanism.
A doesn't seem to have anything to do with this. B is the opposite: we still haven't identified the underlying forces C also is opposed to the passage, better measurement enabled us to confirm a theory and didn't make anything harder to work out D just doesn't really seem relevant, like a E does fit, the anticipated events (continental drift) were detected and the theory was accepted even without understanding the underlying mechanism
