Uniformitarian

Word UNIFORMITARIAN
Character 14
Hyphenation u ni form i ta ri an
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He then suggests that the basalt, a remnant of the Meteors of various types fall to earth continually; some reach the surface and are then called uniformitarian theories occurred at least 3.5 billion years ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But now came Charles Lyell with his famous extension of the "uniformitarian" doctrine, claiming that past changes of the earth's surface have been like present changes in degree as well as in kind. ❋ Unknown (1904)

What I meant to say was that the formation of strata in the earth leads to consistent results, and the "uniformitarian" theories currently being worked on tend to mesh very well and explain each other's unusual phenomena. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet another driver of evolution, among several identified that are less-than random as well as less-than uniformitarian. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rejects uniformitarian ages as based on unprovable presuppositions ❋ Sean (2009)

Given the many factors that appear to affect the width and density of tree rings the balance between these factors may well have been different in the past and the existence of a divergence problem now is on some sort of “uniformitarian” argument evidence that it might well have happened in the pre-instrumental past. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus, Behe concludes on the basis of our knowledge of present cause-and-effect relationships (in accord with the standard uniformitarian method employed in the historical sciences) that the molecular machines and complex systems we observe in cells can be best explained as the result of an intelligent cause. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The ‘uniformitarian principle’ of dendroclimatology is defended most vigorously by those who do not understand, or care to investigate, its statistical implications – especially as pertains to reconstruction accuracy during the MWP. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Those who argued for natural selection, and geologists who accepted uniformitarian principles, were faced with a very restricted time frame because of these clear thermodynamic restrictions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The uniformitarian principle requires that all agents and processes acting in the system do not change behavior over time. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is tending to satisfy the uniformitarian principle. ❋ Unknown (2007)

#10, The ‘“uniformitarian” argument’ is misapplied by the dendro people. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When Rob Wilson talks about the uniformitarian principle, I am not certain if this is what he had in mind from WL05 I would suspect it differs from the views of a number of participants at this blog: ❋ Unknown (2007)

My educated guess as to the reason many of you do this is not that you are trying to argue in a circle, but that it is so ingrained in you to think in naturalistic or uniformitarian terms that you have trouble conceiving another way of looking at things. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this sense, these higher-order “agents”, if they are intermittent, do not conform to the uniformitarian principle. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this sense, these higher-order “agents”, if they are intermittent, do not conform to the uniformitarian principle. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lord Kelvin was quite right to criticize the vague, uniformitarian idea that the earth had always existed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To borrow the words of the great uniformitarian thinker Charles Lyell, intelligence is the “presently acting cause” for complex, functional information. ❋ Unknown (2006)

ID is a positive, empirically based argument which does not appeal to the supernatural, which makes its arguments using uniformitarian reasoning and a scientific way of knowing, and no amount of motive-mongering by Pennock can change that fact. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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