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[edit] Alas
Alas? -- Zoe 04:37, 26 March 2003 (UTC)
[edit] natural selection
From Paul Pearson, Cardiff University
The quotation from Hutton regarding the natural selection mechanism is from the 1794 'Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge', not the Theory of the Earth as stated. See my article on this in Nature Vol 425, p. 665 (2003) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.251.48.62 (talk) 11:46, 23 October 2003 (UTC)
- This has been corrected, albeit much later, and the article has been cited in the article. — Athaenara ✉ 01:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thank You Wikipedia
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.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss. R Robertson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.83.160 (talk) 11:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- 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.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommiepea (talk • contribs) 05:42, 5 January 2007
- 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)
[edit] Unsourced essay
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, James Hutton presented a challenge to Neptunist theory. The theory is called Uniformitarianism because of Hutton's emphasis on the uniform working of natural forces through a long periods of geologic time. Hutton liked to take long walks through the Scottish countryside through rugged hills, alon the sparkling streamsm across the coastal plains, and down to the sea. Those observations suggested a dynamic Earth that changes day by day. Huttons concluded that the Earth is continually worn away by erosion, and that the aroded denris is transported by stream until the running waters of the rivers meet the still waters of the ocrean. Herem the energy of its transport is lost,m the eroded rock debris is deposited in layers of sediment that grow very thick and in time are converted into sedimentary rock.
The slow but continuous working of the process of erosion would ultimately result in the reduction of all land surfaces to sea level. That this has not happened was evidence of a second force at work in the Earth of uplift. Hutton believed that the dedimentary rock laters forminedin the oceans myst be gradyally elevated to form new land surfaces that replace those being worn away. Hutton found evidence for this part of his theory in the fact that the rocks of the highest mountains contain fossils that resemble living organisms found on ly in the sea. Thus, he concluded the rocks of the continents must have been formed under water.
Uniformitarian theory did not gain immediate success, but it did attract a group of adherents who strongly supported their position through the accumulation of empirical data, and this struggle helped swin the emphasis away from academic debate and focus attention on the value of observation evidence in support of a theoritical position. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.38.231.234 (talk) 04:55, 13 May 2007
[edit] Biography assessment rating comment
WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 16:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Uniformitarianism
It should be noted that James Hutton never used the term uniformitarianism which is attributed to him in the first paragraph of the article. — Athaenara ✉ 01:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] hutton
james hutton is in my family im am keven blondin and my grand mother is matilde hutton .he is a very good scientist and he are very intelligent but darwin ameliorate his teory...
je suis keven blondin decendant de james hutton ma grNA MERE EST MATILDE HUTTON et je trouve ke cetait un tres garnd sientifique et il etait tres intelligent meme si darwin a ameliorer sa téorie
