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Catastrophism And Uniformitarianism

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First the European thinkers in the past centuries believed that Earth was God’s creation and that the Earth had been created in 4004B.C. They believed that Earth was about 5,500 to 6000 years old. Two most common perspectives of the history of the Earth in the 17th and 19th centuries are catastrophism and uniformitarianism. In the late seventeenth many groups believed that the Earth has been affected in the past by sudden violent event.One example that catastrophists used as evidence of the process of catastrophic destruction was Noah’s flood. A new concept, known as uniformitarianism , replaced catastrophism. James Hutton proposed an opposing, infinite cycle on natural history and not on the Bible. He thought that Earth was much older that

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