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Contents 1 snowball earth 2 floods 3 References 4 Ackerman/velikovsky 4.1 Pernicious nonsense 5 A.H. Delsemme

[edit] snowball earth

What about the "Snowball Earth" theory? That comes from real scientists... does it qualify?

Also read Asteroid impact if you think that such events are unlikely.

I've always associated this theory with Cuvier, but neither this article nor the article on him make the association. Am I just wrong?(unsigned)

Omission corrected. Vsmith 01:07, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I added an entire new subsection to more correctly present the views of Cuvier and of the English natural theologians of the early 19th century. Rusty Cashman 23:13, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] floods

Actually, the Missoula Floods seem a good example of a much earlier discovery contrary to uniformitarianism though not one with global reprecussions. - KarlHallowell 17:48, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] References

Was the Palmer book used as a reference for writing this or listed as a further source? Also, what is the ISBN? I don't find that title on Amazon or bookfinder.com. Do find two later books by Palmer (1999 and 2003). Vsmith 23:34, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ackerman/velikovsky

I removed what appears to be a promotional bit about books published by a vanity press. An attempt to revive the velikovsky cruft. Vsmith 00:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pernicious nonsense

I've removed it again. It was online long enough for a blog to latch onto it and use it to bash Wikipedia: http://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2006/10/object-lesson-in-wiki-research-this.html It was inserted by nearly identical anon IP addresses.

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Hu 15:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

It keeps getting re-added by a vigilant and non-communicative anon. -- Stbalbach 16:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A.H. Delsemme

We should add references to A.H. Delsemme's book, "Our Cosmic Origins", which gives a very thorough analysis of the various "catastrophes" which paved the way to life: Jupiter disrupting planetoids early in the Solar System's formation, Earth's collision with a Mars-sized planetoid (formation of the moon and destruction of Earth's initial CO2-rich atmosphere), later cometary bombardment of Earth (which enriched Earth's "new" atmosphere), various discussions on fundamental chemical reactions and elements abundance, etc. The author does not advocate panspermia. Rather, he tries to isolate the various events which helped life emerge. All in all, a very interesting book. -- Hugo Dufort 10:47, 11 December 2006 (UTC)