The secular questioning of the quietism of Lyell, Darwin, and modern geology in general is responsible for the revolution in stratigraphy and sedimentology begun in 1977. This revolution is known as sequence stratigraphy. Sequence stratigraphy (the classical Exxon approach) is compatible with creationist Flood geology. Sequence stratigraphy is a non-time-dominant method of doing geology. Strict uniformitarians (non-catastrophists) hate sequence stratigraphy. Sequence stratigraphy is a threat to traditional uniformitarian formation-scale or the grain-by-grain building-up and tearing-down of the land. Beyond classification of sequence stratigraphic units within a new language for geology, this less contrived philosophy of sedimentary analysis potentially offers the dynamic of short-term sea-level changes superimposed upon a single broad long-term sea-level curve (Wilgus, Hastings, Posamentier, Van Wagoner, Ross, and Kendall, 1988). By extension, the Vail curve of sea-level change (cycles within cycles) represents an exponentially based event (non-biased) devoid of cumbersome, intellectually restricting appeals to uniformitarianism - either uniformity of rate or material conditions (earthly agents alone) or mad assertions about space and time, invariance of natural laws (the exclusion of providence). The failure of orthodox uniformitarianism is permitting, in the secular scientific literature, a return to the philosophy of katastrophe (Gk.: to overturn), this time expressed in terms of "extraterrestrial causes." The existential dichotomy, first described by Schaeffer (1968, 1976; 1968; 1977; 1972; 1976; 1976), has brought us to this present marvelous state of affairs in the history of science.