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It is pointed out in the passage that in the course of excavations near Paris, Cuvier ----.
By the early 19th century, the eminent French
zoologist Georges Cuvier believed he had found rock
solid evidence for the Biblical great flood. While
studying the geological strata around Paris, Cuvier
found that fossils of sea creatures in one ancient
layer of chalk were overlaid by those of land
creatures. Then just as abruptly, the layer above
contained sea creatures again, with the top layer
showing evidence of a vast and rapid inundation
around present day Paris. Cuvier regarded these
sudden changes in the fossil record as evidence for
sudden catastrophes which devastated life on Earth,
of which the great flood was just the most recent
example. Cuvier's discoveries, published in 1812
won support from a large number of eminent
scientists such as the geologist Sir James Hall.
However there were a few who were deeply
sceptical, pointing out that the evidence of a global
flood was far from conclusive. Most sceptical of all
were the followers of the Scottish geologist James
Hutton. In 1795 he had published a two volume text
based on the view that the slow steady processes
that shape our planet today, such as erosion, were
also crucially important in the distant past.