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Lyell's work explained how geological features could be built up or torn down over long periods of time.
Hutton and Lyell concluded that the Earth is extremely old and that the processes that changed Earth in the past are the same processes that operate in the present.
important concepts they agreed upon are because uniformitarianism combines Hutton's idea of gradual change over time with lyells observations that such changes have occurred at a constant rate and are ongoing
Some creationists use this argument as "evidence" against evolution. However, the flaw in their argument is that fossils do occur, they are in order, they are separated by a large time difference, and they are transitional. The argument is commonly called the "missing link" problem, and when Darwin first developed his ideas, it actually was. He explicitly recognised it as such, and came up with several ways it would either deny or help support his theory (such as by finding rabbits in the PreCambrian era, or by the presence of missing links, which were later found). However, in the 140 years since then, we have uncovered thousands of fossilized species, each of which is a tranistional form in the evolution of several other species. The best example is that of our own ancestry; several species have been discovered, each getting closer and closer to human as we know it, and at the same time, further from the simple ape-like mammals we began as. All of this happened - according to the geological timeframe - over a period of several million years.
organisms change over time