Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may …

- D. V. Ager

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

- D. V. Ager

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

- D. V. Ager

In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist sea…

- D. V. Ager

In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhy…

- D. V. Ager

Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide…

- D. V. Ager

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the S…

- D. V. Ager

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to me…

- D. V. Ager

Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything th…

- D. V. Ager