For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens were of old,
and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2 Peter 3:5
Lyell, Darwin's geology sidekick, who led the charge against a Biblical Flood |
Implicit in this assumption is the belief that God has never at any time
violated those laws by intervention.
--Second, Lyell assumed that the earth's geological features were caused entirely by processes we see taking place today.
Again, this is reasonable but excludes the possibility of large-scale catastrophic events,
whether or not they were divinely originated.
--Third, he assumed that the geological changes are always slow, gradual, and steady;
modern geology, however, has conceded that this assumption is too rigid
and that some catastrophes have occurred but have been relatively small, local events.
--Fourth, although Lyell could not accept until quite late in life that species could gradually change from one to another, he proposed that the fossil record represented but one part of a "great year" or grand cycle, where the ichthyosaur and pterodactyl might return once more to inhabit the earth."MindsAndMen