Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager Fallibility Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager 18th century Copy Share Image
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I… — D. V. Ager Concealed Copy Share Image
Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for… — D. V. Ager Change Copy Share Image
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic… — D. V. Ager Geology Copy Share Image
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Acceptance Copy Share Image
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked. — D. V. Ager Evolution Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Arbitrary Copy Share Image
Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic… — D. V. Ager Boredom Copy Share Image
