Uniformitarianism (science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uniformitarianism, in the philosophy of science, assumes that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhe...
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Uniformitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uniformitarianism has had two different meanings, which were both more common in the 19th century. • Uniformitarianism in religious philosophy is the belief that the universe has existed unchanged fo...
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Uniformitarianism - The dominant geological paradigm for more than a hundred and fifty years. What are the claims? What are the evidences? ... Uniformitarianism - "The Present is the Key to the Past"; Uniformitarianism is a geological doctrine. It states that current geologic processes, occurring at the same rates...
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James Hutton, known as the father of geology, suggested that the earth was much older and that processes occurring in the present were the same processes that had operated in the past, and would be the processes that operate in the future. ... Hutton based the theory of uniformitarianism on the slow, natural processes that...
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Uniformitarianism is one of the most important unifying concepts in the geosciences. This concept developed in the late 1700s, suggests that catastrophic processes were not responsible for the landforms that existed on the Earth's surface.
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Lyell's version of geology came to be known as uniformitarianism, because of his fierce insistence that the processes that alter the Earth are uniform through time. Like Hutton, Lyell viewed the history of Earth as being vast and directionless.
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uniformitarianism, in geology, doctrine holding that changes in the earth's surface that occurred in past geologic time are referable to the same causes as changes now being produced upon the earth's surface. ... This was in large measure because uniformitarianism seemed in several ways to be contrary to religious beliefs.
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Definition of uniformitarianism from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... Learn more about "uniformitarianism" and related topics at Britannica.com...
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; Discrete rock layers containing different fossils reinforced the idea that the Earth’s history could be divided into ages marked by catastrophic change. However, gradual change, like that caused by erosion, has also played an important role in the Earth’s history. ... Uniformitarianism: Charles Lyell (1 of 3)
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