In this case you busted up my though process because I then realized I don't know which scottish scientist ought to get a day of his own (even if I was thinking of Hutton).
Oh....sorry I didn't mean to bust your chops over this, Lol, you probably do have a good point about Darwin day because as you say he wasn't American, besides - he's already on my ten pound notes!
I guess in Scotland they don't have any volcanos or earthquakes, but they must have at least heard of them.
Well, the UK is hardly a hotspot for such activity, infact I've never even felt a quiver from an earthquake in tea and biscuits Britain.
Uniformitarianism is a blank statement that the processes we see today can be thought to be true in the past.
Yes. Present is the key to the past etc.. Though I don't personally agree with that way of thinking there might well be truth to it, though I have issues with "past tense" things.