> Martin Rudwick's book Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters claims that Aristotle and Plato go against the young earth view. Both philosophers favored biological essentialism & this naturally leads to supporting a planet of relatively recent origin. Plato wrote of the disaster that destroyed Atlantis. Huge catastrophes implies a rapid rock record. What if there is no major time gap between the layers (search "paraconformity")? My History of Science professor David Kitts wrote The Structure of Geology. Kitts work is one of the primary tomes on the Philosophy of Geology. You can hear...
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