Encara no tenim significats per a "catastrophism".
1But to deny catastrophism was to suggest a revolution in current thought.
2Kelvin's directional geology did not invoke the paroxysmal specter of traditional catastrophism.
3Lyell and his adherents didn't just disdain catastrophism, they detested it.
4Not so long ago, such catastrophism would have been the stuff of Speakers' Corner.
5The theory of the French geologist Elie de Beaumont summarized the postulated mechanics of catastrophism.
6The label stuck, and Lyell's rhetorical triumph placed catastrophism beyond the pale of scientific respectability.
7Like most historical catastrophism this is a gross oversimplification.
8For the idea of catastrophism had not concerned the destruction of species merely, but their introduction as well.
9By the 1980s, catastrophism had been out of fashion for so long that it had become literally unthinkable.
10He invented a persuasive dichotomy, pitting uniformity and rectitude on one side, against catastrophism and reaction on the other.
11Instead it described itself as "sceptics of climate catastrophism and costly policies that will drive energy prices higher".
12But when these men died, Lyell's characterization persisted, and "catastrophism" became equated with anti-science and dogmatic theological reaction.
13Lyell and Darwin opposed catastrophism by probing "behind appearance" to interpret, rather than simply to record, the data of geology.
14Catastrophism, a short-sighted teleology, and a still more short-sighted orthodoxy, joined forces to crush evolution.
15To my mind there appears to be no sort of necessary theoretical antagonism between Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism.
16"Are you interested in Catastrophism?" asked the wondering Yankee.
Catastrophism a través del temps