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Catastrophism
One of the most dramatic intellectual events of the last decade has been the stunning re-emergence of the catastrophist paradigm in the biological and earth sciences--from killer asteroids to emergent viruses. Surveying various such theories, author Richard Hugget provides a superb introduction to the ideas that have defined the way we look at the world.

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\Ca*tas"tro*phism\, n. (Geol.)
The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust
have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical
causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of {uniformism}.
 
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 Definition: the belief that the fossil forms represented in each layer of the earth were destroyed by a catastrophic event and that the next set of plants and animals represented a new creation event and were organisms that survived the catastrophe.
 
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