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James Hutton disagreed with biblical estimations of Earth's age. In contrast to biblical estimates of a few thousand years, Hutton estimated that Earth was several million years old. True or false?

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True

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James Hutton worked on basic principles of geology called uniformitarianism, which explains that every earth event that took place have taken time for its formation and everything has to go through uniform pattern of development. Thus, he do not believe in biblical estimation of earth's age.

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