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Science: Tell me about ... Catastrophism
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BEFORE 1830, everyone was a catastrophist. The theory that most
of the features in the Earth were produced by sudden, short-lived,
worldwide events, tied in perfectly with the Christian fundamentalism
that dominated thinking in the West.
Christians knew that the Earth had a turbulent history, including
a planet-wide flood. Awkwardnesses, such as dinosaur fossils and
seashells on lofty mountain peaks could be neatly explained away by
reference to divine intervention in the geological re...
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; ... Roswell. Don't go telling me you still think it's just ... Nazca? Explain that. Junk science -- meaning a veneer of science laid over something as ... This is a subset of junk science that melds fact and fiction ... and speculation. Call it science faction. Call it spooky science. It's ...
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