| Why is the geologic record so much more consistent with catastrophism than with uniformitarianism? |
| For the idea of catastrophism had not concerned the destruction of species merely, but their introduction as well. |
| The idea paved the way for the widespread acceptance of Alvarez's theory about the demise of the dinosaurs and heralded a return to the ideas of catastrophism. |
| 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. |
| The defense of catastrophism was rooted in the most direct reading of geological evidence. |
