| With this concept, he suggests, those great protagonists of uniformitarianism, Hutton and Lyell, would have agreed. |
| In other words, uniformitarianism basically assumes that catastrophic events like the global flood never happened. |
| However, in recent decades geologists have been saying that the gradualistic uniformitarianism of Charles Lyell does not match the evidence. |
| They believed more in catastrophism than in the uniformitarianism that prevails today. |
| In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment. |
| Modern geologists do not apply uniformitarianism in the same fashion as Lyell and his contemporary scientists. |
