The influence of one of the founders of geology continues to reverberate even into the 21st century. Amazing.
For additional information see the Biography of James Hutton from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 1910-1911, at the Creation History Project wiki.
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New centre to honour ‘father of geology’
by Andrew Arbuckle
The Scotsman (Scotland), p. 12.
November 10, 2010
The new “super research institute” which is being formed from the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie and Aberdeen’s Macaulay Land Use Research Institute is to be named the James Hutton Institute in honour of the Scottish enlightenment science pioneer.
James Hutton, who lived from 1726 to 1797, was a leading figure of the Scottish enlightenment, an 18th century golden age of intellectual and scientific achievements centred on Edinburgh. his counterparts included Adam Smith, the economist, and David Hume, the philosopher and historian.
Hutton is internationally regarded as the father of modern geology and one of the first scientists to describe the earth as a living system; his thinking on natural selection influenced Charles Darwin in developing his theory of evolution.
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