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How Scottish geologist James Hutton discovered Deep Time, shattering Biblical claims about the age of the earth, is explained in this video by an actor portraying the 18th century scientist.
A keen geologist whose 'Theory of the Earth' explained the concept of rock cycles, where old rocks are destroyed by weathering and new ones form from the sediment, for the first time.
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