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Uniformitarian

Uniformitarian \U`ni*form`i*ta"ri*an\, a. (Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.

Uniformitarian

Uniformitarian \U`ni*form`i*ta"ri*an\, n. (Geol.) One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uniformitarian

1840 in geology, from uniformity + -arian.

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uniformitarian

a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes. n. One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.

Usage examples of "uniformitarian".

According to uniformitarian geology, that was 560 million years ago, long before life moved ashore, never mind gave rise to humans.

Organized science had tried every tactic of distortion, evasion, misrepresentation, intimidation, vilification, and suppression of evidence to slay the monster that threatened the entire foundation of the collective uniformitarian worldview and mind-set.

Nevertheless, all these irregular and apparently lawless catastrophes would be the result of an absolutely uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum.

God created the so-called anomaly so that we could at long last--but once and for all--prove the fallacy of the uniformitarian and evolutionist doctrines so dear to the scientific establishment.

But these processes were and are very slow and so for the uniformitarians the earth had to be much older than it said in the Bible.

The Uniformitarians hold sway, when it comes to the granting of tenures and honors.