| In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment. |
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| Why is the geologic record so much more consistent with catastrophism than with uniformitarianism? |
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| They believed more in catastrophism than in the uniformitarianism that prevails today. |
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| He considered species to be indistinctly defined, a view that conflicted with the doctrine of catastrophism held by many of his contemporaries. |
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| It should be noted that catastrophism is increasing being accepted in the field of geology. |
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| Similarly, I think there's an affinity between a certain kind of responsibility-averse pessimistic leftism and climate-change catastrophism. |
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| The idea paved the way for the widespread acceptance of Alvarez's theory about the demise of the dinosaurs and heralded a return to the ideas of catastrophism. |
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| The defense of catastrophism was rooted in the most direct reading of geological evidence. |
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| My work transcends the failure of 1960s and 70s environmentalism since I never subscribed to the coalition of catastrophism it sponsored. |
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| This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought called catastrophism. |
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| The second and third claims are vigilantly attacked on the basis of uniformitarianism, or the idea that the geology of the Earth is the result of slow processes, rather than the catastrophism of creation science. |
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| He argued that the claims of catastrophism were unintelligible in principle because all scientists accept the uniformities of law and process, tacitly including his concepts of gradualism and nonprogressionism. |
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| This geologic interpretation is known as catastrophism, which was a long-standing view of fossiliferous rocks prior to the 1800s when a uniformitarian view began to take hold. |
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| This in turn re-established uniformitarianism and dealt a major blow to catastrophism with its eventual traction gained within the European geologists' minds. |
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| In contrast, catastrophism is the theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. |
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| When they do, they often indulge in catastrophism. |
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