| Lyell had been threatening to publish a book on the geological history of Man, which was to be a bomb-shell flung into the camp of the catastrophists. |
| Leading catastrophists such as them promoted the so-called diluvial theory, which accounted for many geological phenomena by the action of the biblical flood. |
| He examined the site to learn about floods and mountain formation, thus drawing the event into a debate between gradualists and catastrophists. |
| Had Boro been on the brink, as the catastrophists claim surely they would have cashed in on Leroy Lita and Andrew Taylor. |
| In that early period, I noticed that the catastrophists, the global warming alarmists, had to have answers to three questions positively. |
| But they believed that much of the geological record was formed quickly and catastrophically, as the early nineteenth-century catastrophists had believed. |
