dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) (11/02/84)
From A. Ray Miller's SOR pamphlet #1: > Most ... evolutionists believe in the concept of ``uniformitarianism'', > i.e., slow, steady, uniform processes are responsible for the forma- > tion of the bulk of the geological column and the fossils it contains. From an article about Creation Astrophysics, as summarized by Richard Carnes, further edited for brevity by me: > John A. Eddy and Aram A. Boornazian have found evidence that the sun > has been contracting about ... 5 feet/hour. The data Eddy and Boornazian > examined spanned a 400-year period of solar observation, so that > this shrinkage of the sun, though small, is apparently continual. > Assuming (by uniformitarian-type reasoning) that the rate of shrinkage > has not changed with time, then the surface of the sun would have touched > the earth about 20,000,000 years ago. (ie. uniformitarians are supposed to believe that all trends continue?) Several years ago, I saw uniformitarianism defined, in the Creation Science Research Society Quarterly, as the belief that the same laws of nature hold at all places and at all times. Here we have two unrelated meanings of the word "uniformitarianism", and a supposed "uniformitarian" belief, "All trends continue." This belief doesn't follow from either meaning of the word, which implies that the "Creation Astrophysicists" who wrote that article must have yet a *third* meaning for the word "uniformitarianism." Does the word "uniformitarianism" have an agreed upon meaning? If so what is it? David Canzi, Uniformitarian (pick a meaning)