Uniformitarian
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Uniformitarian is a word used to describe one who believes in the principles, or any number of aspects and/or assumptions of the philosophy known as uniformitarianism.
Uniformitarianism assumes that "the present is the key to the past" — i.e., the current processes (erosion, tides, radioactive decay) are all occurring now exactly as they have for all time.
Problems of Uniformitarianism
Uniformitarianism explicitly denies the agency of a creator god who can act in history and the existence of miracles. Atheistic scientists who advocate for uniformitarianism often do so in defiance of teleology and a willful distrust of the divine intervention that shapes nature. This is the natural product of philosophical naturalism and is another example of the atheistic bias present within the scientific community.
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