Uniformitarianism
Thoughts on Uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism , also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism , in geology, the doctrine suggesting that Earth's geologic processes acted in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity in the past as they do in the present and that such uniformity is sufficient to account for all geologic change. https://www.britannica.com/science/uniformitarianism a bit of history Thanks to the pioneering work of researchers such as William Smith , geologists in the early 1800s were able to swiftly organize rock formations into a single colossal record of Earth's history. Many geologists saw in this record a stormy epic, one in which our planet had been convulsed repeatedly by abrupt cha...