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= Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Zoologist, deologist, paleontologist, and ichthyologist. Louis Agassiz was born May 28, 1807, in western Switzerland. Louis Agassiz attended the Universities of Switzerland and Germany. At the University of German, Louis studied with two biologist and then later at the University of Erlangen he studied with a man named Cuvier, who had a huge impact on his geological views. At the university of Germany he studied Naturphilosophie, with Oken and Dollinger. "...Naturphilosophie, a German Romantic philosophy that sought metaphysical correspondence and interconnection within the world of living things (Agassiz). When Louis went to the Univesity or Erlangen, him and Cuvier study compartive anatomy.

After Cuvier died, Louis started his research on glaciers. He noticed that glacier carried rocks and debris from places that glaciers never existed before. After a mass amount of research, Louis became known for his theory of the Ice Age. He wrote two books, one, //Etude sur les glaciers,// which was filled with his ideas. Then he wrote, //Systeme glaciare,// which provided further evidence. After establishing this theory, he later found more supporting evidence in North America.

Even after Cuviers death, Agassiz carried on his research. Cuvier came up with idea to seperate the animal kingdom into groups, Vertabrata, Isecta, Vermes, and Radiata, then in each group each species was ranked. Cuvier and Agassiz believe that the fossil found in the lowest rock record were the lowest ranked. Agassiz thought of evolution was, " the phenomena of animal life correspond to one another, whether we compare their rank as determined by structural complication with the phases of their growth, or with their succession in past geological ages; whether we compare this succession with their relative growth, or all these diffrent relations with each other and with geographical distribution of animals upon the earth. The same series everywhere!" (Agassiz). Louis Agassiz later distanced himself from the theory of evolution. he began to see God in nature and he felt that he couldn't believe in a theory that defied God. He then became a creationist and in one of his late essays he wrote, " The combination in time and space of all these thoughtful conceptions exhibits not only thought, it shows also premeditation, power, wisdom, greatness, prescience, omniscience, providence. In one word, all these facts in their natural connection proclaim aloud the One God, whom man may know, adore, and love: and Natural History must in good time become the analysis of the thoughts of the Creator of the Universe" (Agassiz). He was a man who was known for his studies of fossils, glaciers, and evolution but couldn't live a life that defied the Creator of the Universe.

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Louis Agassiz. (n.d.). //UCMP - University of California Museum of Paleontology//. Retrieved January 23, 2013, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agassiz.html

Louis Agassiz – Biography. (n.d.). //Macroevolution.net//. Retrieved January 23, 2013, from http://www.macroevolution.net/louis-agassiz.html

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