Meanings of catastrophism in English

But to deny catastrophism was to suggest a revolution in current thought.

Kelvin's directional geology did not invoke the paroxysmal specter of traditional catastrophism.

Lyell and his adherents didn't just disdain catastrophism, they detested it.

Not so long ago, such catastrophism would have been the stuff of Speakers' Corner.

The theory of the French geologist Elie de Beaumont summarized the postulated mechanics of catastrophism.

The label stuck, and Lyell's rhetorical triumph placed catastrophism beyond the pale of scientific respectability.

Like most historical catastrophism this is a gross oversimplification.

For the idea of catastrophism had not concerned the destruction of species merely, but their introduction as well.

By the 1980s, catastrophism had been out of fashion for so long that it had become literally unthinkable.

He invented a persuasive dichotomy, pitting uniformity and rectitude on one side, against catastrophism and reaction on the other.

Instead it described itself as "sceptics of climate catastrophism and costly policies that will drive energy prices higher".

But when these men died, Lyell's characterization persisted, and "catastrophism" became equated with anti-science and dogmatic theological reaction.

Lyell and Darwin opposed catastrophism by probing "behind appearance" to interpret, rather than simply to record, the data of geology.

Catastrophism, a short-sighted teleology, and a still more short-sighted orthodoxy, joined forces to crush evolution.

To my mind there appears to be no sort of necessary theoretical antagonism between Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism.

"Are you interested in Catastrophism?" asked the wondering Yankee.