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The Idea that the earth was extremely old has been around long before any European came up with the concept and published it. However he is credited with being a leading part of the school of thought that introduced modern geology to the world.

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How did hutton and lyell describe geological change?

Both James Hutton and Charles Lyell are considered the fathers of uniformitarianism geology. Uniformitarianism geology is all that has been taught since shortly after the word geology was coined in 1778. Although catastrophism geology is alive and well among many geologists, currently the word geology connotes uniformitarianism. It is not that Hutton and Lyell are competing for the title of father. James Hutton is credited with lying the foundation of uniformitarianism geology by questioning the then current belief that the sedimentary rock strata was laid down by Noah's worldwide flood. Hutton saw evidence of multiple deposition events and subsequent upheavals and igneous intrusions that revealed a long history of the earth. Although it would appear that much of that evidence would point to catastrophism, Hutton saw only uniformitarianism. Although 45 years went by before Hutton's ideas really had a significance influence, at that time, Charles Lyell added a chronology of the rock layers called the geologic column and added age dates and names to the layers. So Hutton laid the conceptual foundation for uniformitarianism geology and Lyell built the structure of geology upon that foundation. The uniformitarianism concept, along with its mandatory accompanying old earth philosophy, provided the primary influence for Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Together these ideas have caused a paradigm shift from a biblical creationist, young earth worldview to a humanistic, evolutionary old earth worldview


What is the moon about the same age as?

The Moon, we believe, is not quite as old as the Earth itself.


Do evolutionists believe the earth is young or old?

Evolutionists believe that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, based on scientific evidence such as radiometric dating and geological stratigraphy. This age is consistent with the timescales required for evolution to occur as observed in the fossil record.


When do Christians believe the earth began?

Many Christians believe the earth was created somewhere between 20,000 and 12,000 years ago. No one knows for sure, because none of us was there.Answer:Young Earth theory states the Earth is about 6,000 years old. If you add the genealogies of the Bible up, it also come to about 6,000 years.Personally how old the Earth is would be impossible to determine, everything is a theory. I was not there.


. Approximately how old is the Earth?

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Who are the two scientists who helped Darwin recognize how old the Earth is?

James Hulton and Charles Lyell.


How did Hutton and Lyell views of earth different from that of most people of their time?

Hutton and Lyell's view of the earth was that it was over 6,000 years old, and no others at that time did not believe so.


How did Hutton's and Lyell's views of earth different from that of most people of their time?

Hutton and Lyell's view of the earth was that it was over 6,000 years old, and no others at that time did not believe so.


How old is Sir Charles Lyell?

Sir Charles Lyell was born on November 14, 1797 and died on February 22, 1875. Sir Charles Lyell would have been 77 years old at the time of death or 217 years old today.


Who are the Two scientists who helped Darwin and others recognize how old?

James Hutton and Charles Lyell were the two scientists that helped Darwin recognize how old the Earth is.


Recognized that earth is many millions of years old?

Hutton and Lyell


How old was Sir Charles Lock Eastlake at death?

Sir Charles Lyell died on February 22, 1875 at the age of 77.


How did the idea in Charles Lyell book affect Darwin thinking about evolution?

The book made Darwin think that sense the earth is so old, there would be plenty of time for organisms to change slowly.


What did hutton and lyell conclude about earths history?

Hutton and Lyell concluded that Earth is extremely old and that the processes that changed Earth in the past are the same processes that operate in the present.


What were Hutton's and Lyell's ideas about the age of the earth and the processes that shape the planet?

Hutton proposed that the Earth is shaped by slow and gradual processes that operate over long periods of time, known as uniformitarianism. Lyell built on this idea and argued that the Earth is much older than previously thought, with geological changes occurring through the same slow processes still at work today. Their ideas laid the foundation for modern geology and our understanding of the Earth's history.


What is the prevailing notion prior to the time of Lyell and Darwin?

Earth is a few thousand years old, and populations are unchanging.


James Hutton's and Charles Lyell's work suggests that?

Building on the pioneering work of the 18th-century Scottish geologist James Hutton, Charles Lyell developed the theory of uniformitarianism. This theory says that the natural processes that change the Earth in the present have operated in the past at the same gradual rate. Lyell supported his theory with geological observations that he made in the course of extensive travels in Europe and North America.Charles Lyell is also considered one of the founders of stratigraphy - the study of the layers of the Earth's surface. He developed a method for classifying strata, or layers, by studying ancient marine beds in western Europe. Lyell observed that the marine beds closest to the surface, therefore the most recent, contained many species of shell-bearing molluscs that still live in today's seas. On the other hand, deeper, older strata contained fewer and fewer fossils of living species. Lyell divided the rocks of this period into three epochs, based on decreasing percentages of modern species. The names he proposed-Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene-are still used today.