Charles Lyell may have lost the battle over progressionism to Darwinism, but through rhetoric he won a battle against catastrophism, which enabled his hypothesis of the uniformity of rate to become a textbook shibboleth.
42.
He was an early supporter of Charles Darwin s theory of evolution, and from his research of extinct species, was critical of George Cuvier's concept of " anti-evolutionary catastrophism ".
43.
As a result of the influence of Jameson, Buckland, and other advocates of natural theology, the nineteenth century debate over catastrophism took on religious overtones in Britain that were not nearly as prominent elsewhere.
44.
In 1929, a book by one of George McCready Price's former students, Harold W . Clark described Price's catastrophism as " creationism " in " Back to Creationism ".
45.
In an attempt to explain extinction, Cuvier proposed the idea of " revolutions " or catastrophism in which he speculated that geological catastrophes had occurred throughout the Earth s history, wiping out large numbers of species.
46.
Uniformitarianism held the field against the competitor theories of Neptunism and catastrophism, which partook of Romantic science and theological cosmogony; it established itself as the successor of Plutonism, and became the foundation of modern geology.
47.
British natural theology, which sought examples of adaptation to show design by a benevolent Creator, adopted catastrophism to show earlier organisms being replaced in a series of creations by new organisms better adapted to a changed environment.
48.
Some Young Earth Creationists go further and advocate a kind of flood geology which relies on the appropriation of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century arguments in favor of catastrophism made by such scientists as Georges Cuvier and Richard Kirwan.
49.
His faith in the uniformity of nature ( except man's mind ) was set out in a Robert Chambers which applied uniform laws to the history of life in contrast to more respectable ideas such as catastrophism involving a series of divine creations.
50.
This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought called catastrophism, which maintained that many of the geological features of the earth and the history of life could be explained by catastrophic events that had caused the extinction of many species of animals.
How to say catastrophism in Hindi and what is the meaning of catastrophism in Hindi? catastrophism Hindi meaning, translation, pronunciation, synonyms and example sentences are provided by Hindlish.com.
