Substantive uniformitarianism (a testable theory of geologic change postulating uniformity of rates or material conditions) is false and stifling to hypothesis formation.

Specifically, uniformitarianism is the theory, “that all the geological processes that we can observe today have been operating since earth’s history,” said Tim Johnson a geologist at The ...

DR. ALFRED WALLACE, in his letter to NATURE of May 2, calls attention to the significant fact that catastrophes caused by volcanoes “may be of greater magnitude now than in geologic times ...

Geological prophecy ; Sir Charles Lyell and the re-emergence of uniformitarianism ; Non-progressionism -- The minor evolutionists. Branching evolution ; William Wells ; Patrick Matthew and Robert ...

Catastrophism v uniformitarianism on Venus. By studying craters on Venus, scientists found that the entire planet's surface is the same age and relatively young.