| The defense of catastrophism was rooted in the most direct reading of geological evidence. |
| In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment. |
| Similarly, I think there's an affinity between a certain kind of responsibility-averse pessimistic leftism and climate-change catastrophism. |
| But, in revulsion from the previous idea of catastrophism, it undoubtedly was pushed much too far. |
| For the idea of catastrophism had not concerned the destruction of species merely, but their introduction as well. |
| This view is a complete reconciliation of catastrophism and uniformitarianism, and is far more rational than either extreme. |
