Catastrophism

Catastrophism is the theory that Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide in scope. The Biblical story of the Great Flood is a prime example of catastrophism. Earth's history was viewed as the result of an accumulation of catastrophic events over a relatively short time period. It was basically the only way to rationalize the observations of early geologists with a believed short history of Earth during the 18th and 19th centuries.

External links

• Catastrophism and Mass Extinctions
• The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism
• Venus in the Corner Pocket : The Controversial Theories of Immanuel Velikovsky
• "The origin of the moon'.
• Saturnian Cosmology
• Catastrophism! Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences