I am not trying to get more people to blindly insult me if you don't believe this or if it goes against your religion, what ever. I don't care. I just want to know the evidence supporting this principle since we are learning it in Science.
2007-01-23 12:30:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I mean, what is the evidence for the processes happening millions/billions from years ago? I know its happening today.
2007-01-24 01:55:17 · update #1
Uniformitarianism is more of a philosophy. Its basically just an assumption that nature operates in the present the same way it did in the past. Its essentially the foundation of modern Geology. I would say pretty much all the evidence we see in things like plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions creating islands (like Hawaii), and the fact that we have laser ranging systems which can now detect the changing of the earth under us by the millimeter, or less actually. The earth is constantly changing, mountains get higher, continents are drifting, land destroyed (Krakatoa), land created (Hawaii)...i think there is more than enough evidence to assume that the processes we observe in motion today have always been the way they are. Sorry creationists, Radiometric dating of the uranium-238 in zircon crystals, some of the oldest known minerals from earth, suggest earth is at least 4.404 billion years old. Note i didnt say Carbon-14 dating...i said uranium-238, which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
2007-01-23 16:23:37 · answer #1 · answered by Beach_Bum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stacks and stacks of evidence. You should try physics, chemistry, geology, geomorphology, cosmology, biology and astronomy for a start. In fact, try science.
By the way, you will not find evidence for it in creationist sites, they ignore anything that disagrees with them and therefore have no science at all.
2007-01-23 13:16:20 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You aren't going to like this -
It's a premise. It's indisputable for the scale of recorded history, but beyond that - nope. No evidence at all.
2007-01-23 12:40:36 · answer #3 · answered by Dream of Zhuangzi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe certain people in freshman Honors Earth Science should do their own homework. (an explanation is on page one of chapter 21.2) I appologize to anyone who may find this offensive, but "unholysergent" is in my 4th period science class.
2007-01-24 13:14:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋