battle of the theories (written by katherine e. mccormick, lyrics by mary m. viers, music by david t.s. barron)

the theory of catastrophists

made them nothing but mere sophists

for centuries their wrongful form

was accepted as the norm

that earth's landscapes had been shaped primarily

by a series of catastrophes

then came Hutton, the great scot

to show them all what they knew not

that the laws today were laws forever

it always took that long weather

uniformitarianism this was called

catastrophism was thus mauled