uniformitarianism

All were rooted in uniformitarianism, as the idea was known.

The idea that the processes affecting the earth today are the same as in the past is called uniformitarianism.

A foundational idea within the study Earth science is the notion of uniformitarianism.

It was yet another triumph for the revered principle of uniformitarianism.

He is best known, however, for his role in popularising the doctrine of uniformitarianism.

Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.

It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism first reached a wide audience.

We who teach geology go to great lengths to emphasize that uniformitarianism does not mean the earth changes only slowly.

If we reject cyclic ideas and even uniformitarianism, what have we left?

Unlike Lyell, modern geologists do not apply uniformitarianism in the same way.

Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly "scientific".

(1965), reduced these four interpretations to two, methodological and substantive uniformitarianism.

These ideas supported the theories of plutonism and uniformitarianism.

Scientific uniformitarianism obviously leaves no room for supernatural intervention, including especially intervention by God.

His contemporary, James Hutton, did not publish the principle of uniformitarianism until 1795.

In 1710, Leibniz applied ideas of gradualism and uniformitarianism to linguistics.

Price criticized the 'geologic ages' and strict Lyellian uniformitarianism on which they are based.

In geology it is in tune with uniformitarianism, and against catastrophism.

Though uniformitarianism is not yet dead, the comet's fiery interment may come to symbolize its moment of passing.

But at the time, the field was ruled by "uniformitarianism," the idea that slow and gradual geologic process sculpted the earth.

These bridging arguments are used by archaeologists to explain past behaviors and include an underlying assumption of uniformitarianism.

The Creation Research Society claims that "uniformitarianism is wishful thinking".

The four together make up Lyell's uniformitarianism.

The first follows from the second as uniformitarianism presupposes the fixed "outness" of appearances.

Uniformitarianism: the same laws and processes that operate now have always operated in the past and apply everywhere.