Catastrophism
In 1908 over Tunguska, Russia, an object that is believed to have been either a comet or a stony meteorite exploded with the force of a nuclear bomb. If it had happened over an urban...
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Catastrophism
In the late seventeenth century, Anglican Archbishop James Ussher developed a biblical chronology that established the date of the Earth's creation at 9 a.m., October 26, 4004 b.c. His c...
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Gradualism Vs. Catastrophism
Ever since the work of George Cuvier in the late 1700's, the evolutonary mechanisms driving speciation have been debated by both scientists and the general public. Cuvier ...
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Catastrophism
In the late seventeenth century, Anglican Archbishop James Ussher developed a biblical chronology that established the date of the Earth's creation at 9 a.m., October 26, 4004 b.c. His c...
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Skittish from Hurricane Katrina and bracing for another storm season, lawmakers including Florida Gov. Charlie Crist asked Wednesday for a national catastrophe fund to help hold down property insur...
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A government insurance backstop for floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters would be created under a proposal promoted Thursday by lawmakers. They said rising insurance rates are forcing man...
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Chisinau (dpa) - Moldova's government on Monday declared the
drought stemming from this summer's heat wave "catastrophic," the
Infotag news agency reported.
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The pharmaceutical industry initially seemed to have escaped more lightly than might have been expected from the catastrophic Phase I clinical trial with TGN 1412 in London nearly a year ago.
A...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - Rolling power outages across South Africa
caused by a bout of unseasonably bad weather have been blamed for a
massive sewage spillage in Gauteng provinc...
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BAGHDAD, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Iraq is facing a health
"catastrophe" in the capital Baghdad, with reports of cholera
rising sharply over the past weeks to more than 80 new cases,
the Health Ministry ...
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KAVKAZ PORT, Russia, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Long stretches of
Russia's Black Sea coast face an ecological catastrophe, local
authorities said on Monday, after a fierce storm broke up a
tanker, disgorg...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. property and casualty
insurers are expected to pay $6.5 billion in losses from 23
catastrophes during 2007, much of it from California wildfires,
according to ISO, a comp...
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The plight of Palestinians living in the Hamas-controlled Gaza
Strip, largely isolated since the breakup of the unity government in
June, is dire but not tantamount to a humanitarian catastro...
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A senior Chinese government official overseeing the Three Gorges
Dam project on Tuesday denied reports, extensively carried in
state-run media, that the scheme could spark an ''environmental ...
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Catastrophism
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Gradualism Vs. Catastrophism
Catastrophism
Lawmakers plead for catastrophe fund
