10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DILUVIALISM»
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diluvialism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Cataclysms and earth history: the development of
diluvialism
This book explores the development of ideas about enormous floods, both gradual and catastrophic, and the role of floods in fashioning the Earth's surface.
In 1946 Clark retaliated with The New Diluvialism, a detailed exposition of his
ecological zonation theory sprinkled with jabs at Price. In this book, Clark
explained artfully, he sought "to steer a middle course between the Scylla of the ...
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Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives ...
And a year later, Christian geologist and theologian Edward Hitchcock wrote that
diluvialism "has been abandoned by all practical geologists."39 That observation
remains in force today. Yet surprisingly diluvialism has survived to the present ...
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When Geologists Were Historians, 1665-1750
:n the preceding chapter, I mentioned diluvialism as a solution to the pressing
problem of transport. More precisely, as some historians have noted, John
Woodward's Essay of 1695 persuaded many readers both that fossil shells were
organic ...
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Understanding Catastrophe
DILUVIALISM Just as Darwin had been started on a geological career by
Sedgwick at Cambridge, so a decade earlier Lyell had been started on his
geological career by Sedgwick's Oxford counterpart, William Buckland (1784—
1856).
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Sciences of the Earth: A-G
Although somerimes applied to eatlier theoties affirming the reality of the Flood of
Noab on the basis of geological evidence, the rerm "diluvialism" more ptopedy
applies to geological theoties of the 1820s that inrerprered what we now regatd ...
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Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone ...
DIETS See FOOD FADS. DILUVIALISM A theory pertaining to Noah's Flood that
attributes certain geological features of the earth to this specific Deluge. Stories
that describe a universal deluge that obliterated mankind and changed the
earth's ...
William F. Williams, 2013
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The Early Writings of Harold W. Clark and Frank Lewis Marsh
12 G. M. Price to D. J. Whitney, June 23, 1943, Price Papers (semi- evolutionist
and hog-tied); Harold W. Clark, The New Diluvialism (Angwin, CA: Science
Publications, 1946), unpaginated preface, p. 62. Clark also gave Price credit for
the ...
Harold Willard Clark, Frank Lewis Marsh, Ronald L. Numbers, 1995
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Charles Darwin, Geologist
JOHN HEJtSCHEl TO CHARLES LTFII., 20 FEBRUARY 1136 Diluvialism
Religious and geological opinions overlapped in mid- Victorian Britain. Two
intertwined strands of religious influence are evident in Darwin's scientific notes
from the ...
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Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of ...
With his diluvialism, typical of the practice-oriented English geologists organized
around Oxford and Cambridge, Buckland was sometimes in opposition to the
more theoretical Scottish school of uniformi- tarians at Edinburgh University.
