| However, in recent decades geologists have been saying that the gradualistic uniformitarianism of Charles Lyell does not match the evidence. |
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| With this concept, he suggests, those great protagonists of uniformitarianism, Hutton and Lyell, would have agreed. |
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| In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment. |
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| This is an obvious complication in the application of Hutton's doctrine of uniformitarianism. |
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| Modern geologists do not apply uniformitarianism in the same fashion as Lyell and his contemporary scientists. |
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| In other words, uniformitarianism basically assumes that catastrophic events like the global flood never happened. |
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| They teach that the rejection of God's Word did not begin with Darwin's theory of biological evolution or even with Hutton and Lyell's geological uniformitarianism. |
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| They believed more in catastrophism than in the uniformitarianism that prevails today. |
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| Why is the geologic record so much more consistent with catastrophism than with uniformitarianism? |
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| The idea of an old earth is based on the opposing principle of uniformitarianism, which is the doctrine that geologic processes have acted in the same regular manner and intensity throughout geologic time. |
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| Therefore uniformitarianism interprets all geologic features according to processes observed in the post-flood world, while assuming that no flood took place. |
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| The suspicion that Egyptian civilization was older than the flood was one of the key causes of the initial decline in the acceptance of flood geology and the rise of uniformitarianism. |
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| In this work Babbage weighed in on the side of uniformitarianism in a current debate. |
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| This book, which influenced the thought of Charles Darwin, successfully promoted the doctrine of uniformitarianism. |
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| Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time. |
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| This was a period when the prevailing view of geology shifted from castastrophism to uniformitarianism. |
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| In general, creation sciences do not attempt to prove creation directly anymore than secular scientists attempt to prove uniformitarianism or abiogenesis. |
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| The second and third claims are vigilantly attacked on the basis of uniformitarianism, or the idea that the geology of the Earth is the result of slow processes, rather than the catastrophism of creation science. |
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| Today almost all creationists agree with this idea even after this consistency was integrated into the support for naturalism, a close relative of uniformitarianism. |
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| This in turn re-established uniformitarianism and dealt a major blow to catastrophism with its eventual traction gained within the European geologists' minds. |
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| The expression uniformitarianism, however, has passed into history, because the argument between catastrophists and uniformitarians has largely died. |
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| From the time of Hutton's refinement of uniformitarianism, the principle found wide application in various attempts to calculate the age of the Earth. |
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| The Huttonian proposal that the Earth has largely achieved its present form through the past occurrence of processes still in operation has come to be known as the doctrine of uniformitarianism. |
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| In the philosophical climate established by Hutton's uniformitarianism and Lyell's gradualism, geomorphologists of the 19th century realized many impressive accomplishments. |
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| In contrast to catastrophism, uniformitarianism postulates that phenomena displayed in rocks may be entirely accounted for by geologic processes that continue to operate in other words, the present is the key to the past. |
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| They are to archaeology what uniformitarianism is to geology, a means to advance from hypotheses to results through the regulated assessment and incorporation of evidence. |
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| A fundamental tenet of the science of geology is the Principle of Uniformitarianism, which states that the present is a key to the past. |
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