Re: Science Struggle

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From: John McCarthy
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:00

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Uniformitarianism arose in opposition to the doctrine that the
biblical flood caused the strata observed by the geologists.  The
uniformitarians claimed that nature's laws were the same in the past
as today.  I doubt that 19th century uniformitarians would have been
shocked the Alvarez hypothesis that the K-T extinction was caused by
an asteroid.
-- 
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

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From: John McCarthy <jmc@Steam.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: Science Struggle
Date: 1999/09/24
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