This is a guy who read Immanuel Velikovsky's work and then decided to do his own amateur speculations on comparative mythology and so-called " catastrophism ".
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:: Um, neo-catastrophism as I have heard about it has nothing to do with the subject of the article, or very little to do with it.
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Parkinson belonged to a school of thought, Catastrophism, that concerned itself with the belief that the Earth's geology and biosphere were shaped by recent large-scale cataclysms.
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Catastrophism claimed that animals and plants were periodically annihilated as a result of natural catastrophes and then replaced by new species created " ex nihilo " ( out of nothing ).
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In the decades of the 20th century, George McCready Price and a tiny group of Young Earth and a worldwide flood, which Price championed in his " new catastrophism " theories.
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By this time, the Reverends William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick and other early geologists had abandoned their earlier ideas of catastrophism related to a biblical flood and confined their explanations to local floods.
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The diluvial cosmogonies fell victim to their own success, as the spirit of scientific inquiry they had stimulated, gradually led to discoveries that undercut the biblical premises of flood geology and catastrophism.
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As a result, the general idea of catastrophism has re-emerged as a valid hypothesis for at least some of the rapid changes in life forms that appear in the fossil records.
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The Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right's ( CEDA ) victory in the 1936 coup resulted in the start of the civil war, which would be considered a success of catastrophism.
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Brace continued his reappraisal of the Neanderthal problem in 1964 in " The Fate of the'Classic'Neanderthals : a consideration of hominid catastrophism " published in " Current Anthropology ".
