On the origin of sacrifice and priest kingship in Mesopotamia, Heinsohn suggested an explanatory model based upon a catastrophist view of ancient history and a psychoanalytic interpretation of sacrificial rituals.
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His early poetry was in what was called the " Catastrophist " school of the 1930s, which foresaw the annihilation of the principal values of modern culture and a devastating war.
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But one does not have to be a Malthusian catastrophist to believe that, in many poor nations, economic and social problems could be more readily mastered if population growth were curbed.
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Their first proper full-length, " The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist ", was released on November 10, 2009 through the label The Mylene Sheath in the US and Make My Day Records in Europe.
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James Gillespie, the protagonist and seeing-I of Ronan Bennett's marvelous new novel, " The Catastrophist, " is himself a writer, the author of three novels, now working on a fourth.
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In showing how Hutton and Lyell were dedicated not to modern notions of geological dynamism but to antique ones of geological steady-state, Gould points out that Lyell was even less of an empiricist than most of his catastrophist and creationist opponents.
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It led him to deny all evidence of progression in the fossil record and hence to reject not only Lamarck's theory of evolution but also contemporary catastrophist notions, in which " higher " organisms were thought to replace " lower " ones after mass extinctions.
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"He was murdered before he had the chance to disillusion people or become corrupt himself, " said Ronan Bennett, an author from Northern Ireland whose 1999 novel " The Catastrophist " revolves around Congolese independence and the complexity of Lumumba's legend.
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This popular critique of these ideas has led to many catastrophists ( such as Ian ) to reposition their advocacy toward less overtly catastrophist positions and in the process have consolidated ( mostly on the internet ) resources that attack the things they wish to attack from a number of angles.
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The storm of controversy created by Velikovsky's publications may have helped revive the catastrophist movement in the second half of the 20th century; however, it is also held by some working in the field that progress has actually been retarded by the negative aspects of the so-called Velikovsky Affair.
