Is Uniformitarianism Necessary?

Human Life Is The Result Of A Glorious Evolutionary Accident.

The Myriad Valleys Could Have Arisen Anywhere On The Landscape. The Current Positions Are Quite Accidental. If We Could Repeat The Experiment, We Might Obtain No Valleys At All, Or A Completely Different System. Yet We Now Stand At The Shore Line Contemplating The Fine Spacing Of Valleys And Their Even Contact With The Sea. How Easy It Is To Be Misled And To Assume That No Other Landscape Could Possibly Have Arisen.

Obsolescence Is A Fate Devoutly To Be Wished, Lest Science Stagnate And Die.

Nothing Matches The Holiness And Fascination Of Accurate And Intricate Detail.

The History Of Life Is A Tale Of Decimation And Later Stabilization Of Few Surviving Anatomies, Not A Story Of Steady Expansion And Progress.