Re: non-uniformitarianism?

Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swac.edu)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:28:30 -0800

At 02:18 PM 2/19/98 -0800, Greg Billock wrote:

>It doesn't seem to me, though, that either the complexity of the Specimen
>Ridge area (which certainly isn't an undisturbed 'fossil forest') or
>proposed methods for disturbances (tree parts floating in) says much about
>either uniformitarianism or flood geology. As I said, the disturbance is
>proposed with analogy to currently-active processes on Mt. St. Helens, which
>is exactly a uniformitarian claim.

I agree fully, so long as you are using the word in the sense that "Water
didn't run uphill in the past"
Art
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