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Geologist James Hutton argued that the geologic processes occurring today have occurred since the formation of Earth. This idea is known as

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This idea is known as Uniformitarianism. It is based on the opinion that the natural laws have always been the same on Earth, thus the same geological processes have been occurring on Earth forever.
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