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Brand, L. R. - The Paradigm of Naturalism, Compared with a Viable Alternative - English
URL: http://www.grisda.org/origins/23006.htm

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This article proposes that with careful analysis of the issues, we can show that interventionism is a valid approach to scientific investigation. There is a constructive way to relate science and faith so that each benefits the other, without inappropriate interference between them. When this method is used, it contributes to an improved understanding of earth and biological history.

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Catastrophism? Yes! - English
URL: http://education.gc.adventist.org/dialogue/essays/Roth.htm

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A review of how science has gone back and forth on the role of catastrophism in the study of earth's history - by Ariel A. Roth.

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Geography 423 - Space and Time in Geomorphology - English
URL: http://uregina.ca/~sauchyn/geog423/spacetime.html

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Fundamental concepts of landscape evolution. Uniformitarianism, neocatastrophism, erodicity (ergodic theorem, hypothesis, assumption).

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Neocatastrophism - English
URL: http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~jfrench/ugrad/2005L9/sld041.htm

Brief intervals of rapid change interrupt longer periods of more gradual change “the history of any one part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror” (D. Ager, 1981).

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Catastrophism, Neocatastrophism and Evolution - English
URL: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/catneo.htm

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"Evolutionary change was slow (an essential feature of gradualism), imperceptible (except over long periods of time) and progressive (though not because of linear development, but as a result of competition between variant forms). Later, however, it became increasingly clear that the course of evolution had been much less even paced and much more erratic than previously realised, the fossil record revealing episodic rapid bursts and abrupt transitions which could no longer (as formerly) be dismissed as artifacts. Moreover, from 1980 onwards neocatastrophism made remarkable advances so that, today, impacts of asteroids and comets have to be regarded as perfectly plausible agents of evolutionary change, and evidence for such an extraterrestrial involvement at any particular time considered on its merits."

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