Principle of Uniformitarianism.
False Catastrophism is not the idea that the present is the key to the past. Uniformitarianism is the idea that the person is the key to the past.
Uniformitarianism.
uniformitarianism
Galapagos Islands
James Hutton said this quote
The key to the past is the present.
Uniformatarianism.
It is a concept in geology.
James Hutton discovered the uniformitarianism theory, which states that the earth has changed and is still changing overtime, but very slowly.
Charles Lyell.
uniformitariansm
The concept that the "present is the key to the past" in geomorphic processes. The processes now operating have also operated in the past.