Who Was James Hutton and Why Is James Hutton Known As the Father of Modern Geology?
In 1795, the Scottish geologist James Hutton wrote a book called Theory of the Earth. Hutton had a new theory about how Earth formed. He said Earth was probably millions of years old. Hutton rejected Cuvier’s catastrophism and said changes had occurred slowly over these millions of years from simple forces, like erosion and sedi
