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Uniformitarianism, A Piss Poor Science Assumption

Posted on: Tue, 2006-10-17 06:30 | By: matt | In:

Scientists make a lot of assumptions to come to the conclusions they do. Stephen Hawking calls some of his assumptions "ideological". In order to come to the conclusions scientists do they have to make assumptions to fill in holes. Some of these assumptions may be perfectly valid but there are some that are piss poor, like uniformitarianism. Let me try to explain why....