catastrophism

Meanwhile, the evidence for catastrophism was piling in from other sources.

Catastrophism, which says that a single event or a series of events caused the extinction.

Instead, they assert that available physical evidence best supports original catastrophism and a young Earth.

In this theory, there was no room for "catastrophism."

This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism.

Catastrophism points to abundant evidence that global changes also occur rapidly and violently.

In this latter work he expounded a scientific theory of Catastrophism.

Catastrophism had a religious overtone in Britain that was absent elsewhere.

The view that creole languages are the product of catastrophism is heavily disputed.

Fox also wrote a number of books on pre-Columbian American cultures and catastrophism.

Creation science incorporates the concept of catastrophism to account for Earth's geological formations.

Cuvier's theory, "catastrophism," was the first modern speculation on the development of life on earth.

Catastrophism: the idea that Earth has had sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.

That's what the public likes about Catastrophism, Mallory.

Explanation of the Earth's geology by catastrophism, including the occurrence of worldwide flood.

The discovery of fossils of extinct species was explained by theories such as catastrophism.

This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought called catastrophism.

George Cuvier explained the disappearance and emergence of life forms within a given area with natural disasters, in a theory called catastrophism.

In geology it is in tune with uniformitarianism, and against catastrophism.

Uniformitarianism is opposed by catastrophism, the idea that major changes in the Earth take place through sudden and violent events.

In effect, in one step the concept of the turbidity current took us back to the catastrophism of earlier geological thought.

It was too radical, too much like the discredited catastrophism of Velikovsky.

"Are you interested in Catastrophism?"

The theory of catastrophism, which was as much secular as theological in attitude, could be used in analogous ways.

Mainstream archaeologists have avoided mentioning her article for fear of its apparent catastrophism, an awkward subject in geology.