Earth Sciences 2240F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uniformitarianism, James Hutton, Gradualism
2 Mar 2018
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Figured out you can discover the earths history based on the natural processes that have happened in the past: ex. Weathering: he assumed that the original surface of the earth was a smooth pile of sediments and was very different compared to the surface we see now. Thomas burnet: took a literal translation of the bible and assumed that all uneven parts of the earth came from. Noah"s flood: because it was published in english it received a lot of praise at its time, wrote an interpretation of the creation which was dismissed by king williams for the effort. Archbishop ussher 1650: religious right was being strengthened all hypotheses had to be accompanied with a literal interpretation of the bible. In 1650 au pronounced that earth came into existence at sunset of october 22nd 40004 b. c: all his data came from deaths and such in the bible. Catastrophism: an attempt to put geology and religion in one.
