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131. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of catastrophism from original acceptance of geological evidence supporting biblical stories, through a period of rejection after Lyell's uniformitarian geology and Darwin's huge evolutionary time scales reinforced each other towards a completely gradualistic outlook and, finally, to the recent resurgence of catastrophism via the respectability of impact theories. All theories could be seen as products of their times. After Lyell and Darwin gradualism became so entrenched that even as late as 1993 catastrophism was still considered in some quarters as unscientific, despite there being no hard evidence for gradualism. All the geological evidence for sudden changes was submerged by theories of ice-ages, continental drift, earthquakes and volcanism taking place over long periods of time. Ideas of cosmic catastrophism ...
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... ancestral sage. Celestial Chaos From about the middle of the nineteenth century, the authority of the established Church gave way in official eyes to the authority of empirical Science. Thus, when the providential view of the universe could no longer be sustained by a purely theological argument, the uniformitarian view of geological and biological evolution (as introduced by Lyell and Darwin respectively) gained in ascendancy and the idea of cosmic catastrophes fell into scientific disrepute. Initially there was an undercurrent of political correctness' associated with the uniformitarian view as Science established its power (chiefly in the hands of Huxley and his acolytes) and the divine component of natural philosophy was ruthlessly expunged. Later, however, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v1993cam/066era.htm
133. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... deposits which lay as a mantle in northern regions. In an attempt to explain the origin of these features, theories of tidal waves were developed from the cooling Earth' scenario of Élie de Beaumont [15, 18, 20]. Nevertheless, only a few years later, catastrophic diluvialism was a spent force. This was because Charles Lyell (1797-1875) established what he termed the uniformitarian' view that the only significant processes changing the Earth's surface were ordinary, everyday ones, acting gently but persistently over very long periods of time. Also, it became accepted, largely because of the work of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), a Swiss naturalist and catastrophist, who moved ...
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134. The Cautious Revolutionary [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to whether all were associated with global cataclysms. Later, Raup and Sepkoski argued that these and other mass extinctions occurred at regular, 26 million year time intervals, which suggested to them an extraterrestrial cause [10]. Gould has always been prepared to offer some support to catastrophism. In one of his essays he writes, "Charles Lyell, the godfather of geological gradualism, had pulled a fast one in establishing the doctrine of imperceptible change. He had argued, quite rightly, that geologists must invoke the invariance (uniformity) of natural laws through time in order to study the past scientifically. He then applied the same term - uniformity - to an empirical claim about ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v1987/45revol.htm
135. Knowledge and Entropy - an Evolutionary Outlook [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... as possible' (Odum, 1975). Moreover, with the urban-industrial development, the high-level organization of life is replaced by the crude organization of machines. The role of man in the extinction of fossil species is controversial: see for instance Jelinek's (1967) opposition, and Herter's (1967) support, of the earlier views of Lyell (1863) about the extinction of Late Pleistocene megafaunas. Regarding present-day extinctions, however, the role of man can be hardly questioned. "The principal destructive process at work now is modifcation or loss of species' habitats, which arises for the most part from economic development of natural environments" (Myers 1976). According to ...
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... know how to work out how long ago things happened, but there was of course the basic idea of a nice stable Solar System, that was OK, they could work out a timescale for the astronomical part, the rest of it, the geology, they were a bit stuck on, but of course there were people like Charles Lyell, there was Hutton, and various others, who had suggested that the basic geology must be based on the premise that what we see happening today, is what must have been happening in the past, they had this nice uniformitarian idea, there was no reason why things should have changed drastically, so we have to look for ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  30 Mar 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/articles/talks/sis/810606pw.htm
137. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the conservative bigots." And Professor A. Hallam told the BA that, whatever the merits of a cometary hypothesis to account for the mass extinction of many life forms at the end of the Cretaceous period, there are striking relationships to be found in the geological record between mass extinction phases and changes in sea-level. What price now the Lyell and Darwin orthodoxies of 1950? Just as Velikovsky predicted, his astral catastrophism has entered the leftiest halls of science - through their back doors. Hickey Rides Again source: New Scientist 13/8 /81, p. 406, 10/9 /81, p. 645 The claims of Leo J. Hickey of the Smithsonian ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/vol0403/20monit.htm
... classified as a planetary caenocatastrophist. Recognizing, then, that catastrophism has many varieties, I am nonetheless dissatisfied with the term catastrophism as a blanket antonym to uniformitarianism (or uniformism, for short). For uniformism itself has at least two major conceptual components: gradualism and actualism. Gradualism is probably best represented by Charles Darwin's geological mentor Charles Lyell. Actualism is perhaps best represented by Lyell's older contemporary, the German geologist Leopold von Buch . Catastrophism, as I understand the term, should not be placed in opposition to uniformism generally but only to one of its two components-viz., actualism, which is the theory that the forces which shaped our planet and its inhabitants in the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  29 Mar 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/articles/talks/portland/wescott.htm
139. Homo Schizo Meets God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... mind') from the effects of this traumatic experience by exuding into the blood a specific defense against schizophrenia. About this time there occur also various petulant scribbles on his readings viz.: Glancing through The Scientific American's handsome volume on Human Variations and Origins, I see many errors behind the skillful graphics. There is Eiseley's idiotic article on Lyell, for example. The distinguished' academician knows much about his man's surface and nothing about his dynamics, nor does he understand the real conflict between uniformitarian and catastrophic evolution. Eiseley's reputation comes from a deadhead riding the commonplace, uttering mystic words. Later in the book I see all manner of speculations treated as facts, simply because ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  29 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/degrazia/heretics/ch08.htm
... doubted that what they observed was the result of repeated cataclysms in which the entire globe partook. Actually, Charles Darwin, observing the destruction of fauna in South America, was convinced that nothing less than the shaking of the entire frame of the Earth could account for what he saw. But the introduction of the principle of uniformitarianism by Charles Lyell, a lawyer who never had field experience, and the acceptance of it on faith by Charles Darwin, are a psychological phenomenon that I observed again and again. Exactly those who, like Darwin, witnessed the omnipresent shambles of an overwhelming fury of devastation on a continental scale, became the staunchest defenders of the principle of uniformitarianism, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 6  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/pensee/ivr07/10mychal.htm
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