The result of his collaboration with Victor Clube and others on the role of giant comets in Earth history is known as " coherent catastrophism ."
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Scientists in general dislike the idea of catastrophism, preferring instead to hunt for evidence of the smooth working of nature's laws over geologic time.
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The tour starts with a stroll around the Bay of Naples, which introduces readers to two salient themes in geological thought-- catastrophism and uniformitarianism.
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:: : : Catastrophism is a term from geology, while the neocatastrophism in question is more about cosmology ( or astronomy ? ) than geology.
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Perhaps we need to to have a redirect called Neocastrophism ( astrobiology ) and another to maybe Catastrophism, then there is paleontology to deal with perhaps?
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This user has been editing articles related to Immanuel Velikovsky and catastrophism despite having an abiding coflict of interest as he sells a CD-ROM on the subject.
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Though uniformitarianism dominated ideas from the 1840s onwards, Catastrophism remained a major meteor strikes ) and gradualist patterns ( such as ice ages ) to explain observed geologic phenomena.
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Whitcomb and Morris instead published with the small Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, whose owner Charles H . Craig had long wanted to acquire a manuscript that supported catastrophism.
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Ellenberger came to accept Victor Clube and Bill Napier's model as a scientifically valid and intellectually satisfying replacement for Velikovsky-inspired models of recent, interplanetary catastrophism.
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William Buckland had led attempts in Britain to adapt the geological theory of catastrophism to account for erratic boulders and other " diluvium " as relics of the Biblical flood.
