Twenty or so years ago, a discerning Creationist - or another - person might have predicted that interest in former catastrophies would increase greatly. And that is what has happened. But the matter has come to be viewed in several different ways. Creationists know that there was one great catastrophe: the Flood. There are secular catastrophists, of whom Velikovsky is surely the best known. And many uniformitarians are admitting that the uniformity may have been punctuated by an occasional catastrophe. In this article the implications of, and relation between, these three points of view are investigated.