Talk:James Hutton

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Im a 10th grader at Riverside High School and i have been lookig all over the internet trying to find something about James Hutton but when i came to this site i found what i was lookin for!!Thanks Slot Yours Sincerly, Richard Curry

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I am a first year student at secondary school, and I was given homework for History to find out about James Hutton. I could not find much information, so I tried on Wikipedia and found what I was looking for! Thank You Wikipedia, for being there and helping me.

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Miss. R Robertson
Glad we could be of at least some use to some wee soul! Thanks for saying so. --Mais oui! 11:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Religion quotes Hutton

Now I don't know for sure, but under the Cultural Reference heading the contributor claims that the band Bad Religion wasn't inspired by Hutton when they used his quote, "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end" in a song. This seems impossible knowing that the lead vocalist for the band, Greg Graffin, has his undergraduate and master's degrees in geology. I recognized the quote immediately when my geology professor recited it in class ages ago having owned the Bad Religion cassette. So anyway- if I'm wrong then maybe a source could be cited for that tidbit.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tommiepea (talk • contribs) 05:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I've removed that unsourced claim as you suggest. .. dave souza, talk 09:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

That is extremely interesting. The source of the questionable assertion is interesting, too, but in a different way. From the article history:

  • 04:44, 10 October 2004 (UTC) (over two years ago) the line, "The punk rock band Bad Religion quoted him saying "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end" on their 1989 album No Control on the song of the same album title" was added at the bottom of the page by User:Mike Garcia (talk) (contribs).
  • 04:46 (two minutes later) he came back to add to add, "but it wasn't inspired by him." (Four months ago, that user was blocked indefinitely (Block log) for offenses including vandalism and multiple sock puppets.)
  • 19:01, 16 October 2005 (UTC) (over a year after that) another user added the "Cultural reference" section heading and moved it farther up the page without questioning the content.

I've added more information to the line, pluralised "Cultural references" as there may be more in future, and repositioned it between "See also" and "External links." Athænara ✉ 11:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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