Agassiz was a creationist who believed nature had order because God has created it directly and Agassiz viewed his career in science for the search of ideas in the mind of the creator expressed in creation.

Agassiz like other polygenists believed Book of Genesis recounted the origin of the white race only and that the animals and plants in the Bible refer only to those species proximate and familiar to Adam and Eve.

Agassiz, Josiah Clark Nott, and other polygenists such as George Gliddon, believed that the biblical Adam means " to show red in the face " or " blusher "; since only light skinned people can blush, then the biblical Adam must be the Caucasian race.

Agassiz believed God had made all men equal:

Agassiz believed evolution was an insult to the wisdom and will of God.

The species was originally described by Louis Agassiz in 1831 as Lobotes ocellatus, as he mistakenly believed the species was marine ; later work assigned the species to the genus Astronotus.

This map is now believed to underestimate the extent of the region once overlain by Lake Agassiz.

Early in his career he believed that he had found geologic evidence of the biblical flood, but later became convinced that the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz provided a better explanation, and he played an important role in promoting that theory in Great Britain.

Idealists such as Louis Agassiz and Richard Owen believed that each species was fixed and unchangeable because it represented an idea in the mind of the creator.

A creationist, Agassiz believed he could find geological proof of his theory concerning glacial action in Brazil that would knock down the evolutionist theory of Charles Darwin.

The question having attracted the attention of Agassiz, he not only discussed it with Charpentier and Schimper and made successive journeys to the alpine regions in company with them, but he had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers, which for a time he made his home, in order to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.

The only person who did name a species after her during her lifetime was the Swiss-American naturalist, Louis Agassiz.

The river itself is very young ; it began only after Lake Agassiz drained, about 9, 500 years ago.

The Duck House is sited within a prominent landscape in the Back Bay Fens adjacent to the Agassiz Road bridge — the only building along that roadway.

Agassiz Road is a significant pedestrian link between the East and West Fenway neighborhoods though it provides only one-way vehicular circulation.

The bridges not named for roads they carried were named for prominent local figures ' families at the time of construction of the Back Bay Fens: Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Louis Agassiz, a prominent scientist at Harvard, whose daughter Ida married Higginson.

Lake Agassiz ' major drainage reorganization events were of such magnitudes that they had significant impact on climate, sea level and possibly early human civilization.

The developed concept of ice ages, pioneered by Louis Agassiz, seemed to provide evidence of such events, drawing the line between the pre-Adamic era and the modern one ( which she posited as beginning about 6, 000 years ago ).

Spix, who died in 1826, did not live long enough to work out the history of these fish, and Agassiz ( though fresh out of school ) was selected by Martius for this purpose.

In gathering materials for this work Agassiz visited the principal museums in Europe, and meeting Cuvier in Paris, he received much encouragement and assistance from him.

In 1836 the Wollaston Medal was awarded to Agassiz by the council of that society for his work on fossil ichthyology ; and in 1838 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.

In the early stages of his career in Neuchatel, Agassiz also made a name for himself as a man who could run a scientific department well.

Agassiz was grateful for the help the women had given him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834.

Thus familiarized with the phenomena associated with the movements of recent glaciers, Agassiz was prepared for a discovery which he made in 1840, in conjunction with William Buckland.

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

Agassiz is remembered today for his theories on ice ages, and for his resistance to Charles Darwin's theories on evolution, which he kept up his entire life.

Agassiz denied that migration and adaptation could account for the geographical age or any of the past.

According to Agassiz ’ s theory of polygenism animals, plants and humans were all created in “ special provinces ” each having distinct populations of species created in and for that province.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

Agassiz was grateful for the help the women had given him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834.

The cydippid ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei A. Agassiz, 1860 was named for him ; it was discovered in 1859 by Alexander Agassiz who was working as an engineer on a ship surveying the United States / Canada boundary between Washington State and British Columbia.

In 2008, Crookston-based Agassiz Energy, LLC, announced that it had postponed indefinitely its plans for a $ 58. 5 million ethanol plant at the junction of the former Great Northern and Soo Line railroads, near the interchange of U. S. Routes 59 and 2.

A return of the ice for some time offered a reprieve, but after retreating north of the Canada – United States border around 10, 000 years ago, Lake Agassiz refilled.

Other geological and geomorphological evidence for Lake Agassiz can also be seen today.

While the text was written by Beebe, the illustrations were provided by several artists: Robert Bruce Horsfall, who had accompanied Beebe on the expedition, painted the environmental scenes for the illustrations ' backgrounds, while the pheasants themselves were painted by other artists including George Edward Lodge, Charles R. Knight, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

His attention was directed to the question of the flow of glaciers in 1840 when he met Louis Agassiz at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, and in subsequent years he made several visits to Switzerland, where he was particularly impressed by Bernhard Studer's theories, and also to Norway for the purpose of obtaining accurate data.

Adaptation took time, in an example Agassiz questioned how could plants or animals migrate through regions they were not equipped to handle.

For example Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard was a believer in Agassiz's polygenism.

For example, the 19th-century writer Louis Agassiz used Eblana as a Latin equivalent for Dublin.

One example of this is the 8. 2 kiloyear event, which associated with the draining of Glacial Lake Agassiz.

Eventually, Buckland would abandon flood geology in favor of the glaciation theory advocated by Louis Agassiz, who had briefly been one of Cuvier's students.