IN reference to Prof. Judd's excellent statement of the position of the uniformitarian, allow me to call attention to an argument which tends to show that, so far as earthquakes and volcanic ...

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Specifically, uniformitarianism is the theory, “that all the geological processes that we can observe today have been operating since earth’s history,” said Tim Johnson a geologist at The ...

There was also the strain of imagining the scale of time implied by “Lyell on geology” -- a phrase we should probably read as implying more than the replacement of “catastrophism” by ...