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Archbishop Ussher
Based age of earth on biblical genealogy
Declared earth was created at 9 am, October 26, 4004 B.C.
Earth is 6016 years old
James Hutton
Earth must be much older than 6000 years
Vast amounts of time must have elapsed to result in the earth's surface as we see it today
1785; the theory of the earth
Catastrophism
Earth was created almost instananeously and any c hange since that time occurred in catastrorphic events, usually floods
Uniformiarianism
James Hutton
"The present is the key to the past"
Geologic change occurs in impereptibly small and slow steps over vast amounts of time
Author
Anonymous
ID
173487
Card Set
Geology 2-1
Description
Geology
Updated
2012-09-26T03:39:50Z
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