At 07:22 PM 7/11/2008, Katherine Arens wrote:
The controversy was Neptunism (what Bill described) versus Vulcanism -- the idea that every thing was volcanic origin. It was important because in britain they were trying in the 19th century to reconcile the geologic record with the bible,....
It's that need to reconcile reality with superstition (and sometimes but not usually the other way around) that causes me to go on so. The whole Neptunism vision of cave formation should be another clue to those who haven't quite got a handle yet on how real geology works and magic doesn't.
--Ediger
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