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- noun Plural form of
uniformitarian .
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Examples
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They conducted experiments and the results can be filed side-by-side with the work the uniformitarians have amassed.
Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat Evolution's Most Famous Experiment - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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I picture the uniformitarians, round about, say, 1966 or so.
Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit 2007
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North is to “Climate Science” as any number of past uniformitarians were to Geology.
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The publication of this paper also shoots down the widely held belief amongst YECs deriving from out and out lies passed down by the ‘scientists’ at AiG and ICR that geologists are simply blind uniformitarians who insist that everything in the past happened at a snails pace.
Creationism at the Geological Society of America - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The irony is that YECs are the true uniformitarians.
Creationism at the Geological Society of America - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The fact was admitted that the uniformitarians of ones youth had wound about their universe a tangle of contradictions meant only for temporary support to be merged in larger synthesis, and had waited for the larger synthesis in silence and in vain.
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As Huxley put it, the school of catastrophe put no limit to the violence of forces which had operated; the uniformitarians put no limit to the length of time during which forces had operated.
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As Huxley put it, the school of catastrophe put no limit to the violence of forces which had operated; the uniformitarians put no limit to the length of time during which forces had operated.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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Few triumphs of the uniformitarians, who sacrifice individual needs to mechanical convenience in dealing with youth in masses, have been so sad as marking off and standardizing a definite quantum of requirements here.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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But Bruguière, who is to be reckoned among the early uniformitarians, says that "the capacity for observation is now too well-informed to be contented with such a theory," and he explains the formation of coal deposits in the following essentially modern way:
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