No, you haven't. It was Charles Lyell and James Hutton, two atheists, who conspired to go against the domination of science by creationists by making up uniformitarianism and that which led to evolution. Both based on atheism, but you treat that as non-religion.
"At a recent AiG event in Scotland, I came across two men whose beliefs had a lasting impact on the
church and the culture for very different reasons.
Siccar Point, on the east coast of Scotland, is famous in the history of the debate over the age of the Earth. It is this rocky headland that James Hutton (1726–1797), deist and often hailed as “the founding father of geology,” considered to be proof of his uniformitarian ideas of geological development. Consequently, his beliefs significantly undermined the biblical account of
Creation and the Flood. Part of the sign at Siccar Point reads,
"The rocks at Siccar Point were the defining proof for his revolutionary Theory of the Earth. Most people at this time thought the world no older than a few thousand years. Hutton realised that earth processes are cyclical and that geological time is virtually unlimited . . . Hutton’s theory released science and philosophy from limitations of the biblical age of the earth (6000 years old). Though bitterly disputed at the time, it is now accepted as a fundamental of science.
Hutton’s views gave rise to the philosophy of uniformitarianism, which is the belief that the present is the key to the past. This would later be popularized by influential lawyer-geologist Charles Lyell in his three-volume work
Principles of Geology (1830–1833), the first volume of which greatly influenced Charles Darwin during his famous five-year voyage around the world (1831–1836). Uniformitarianism has nothing to do with observation or the evidence but is accepted in order to avoid interpreting the evidence in light of the catastrophic processes implied by the global Flood described in Genesis 6–8. However, it is biblical revelation, and not observations in the present, that is the key to understanding the past (2 Peter 3:3–6).
Unfortunately, Hutton’s ideas played a vital role in the church abandoning its belief in the biblical account of Creation and the Flood, which had disastrous effects on the culture."
At a recent AiG event in Scotland, I came across two men whose beliefs had a lasting impact on the church and the culture for very different reasons.
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Hutton's ideas led to what he taught Charles Darwin and Darwinism. Darwin used natural selection which he stole from the church and ran with it to con you into evolution today. You and I are on different sides of this natural selection attributed to Darwin or God.
What gets me is my side was one with it first and now you ignore the credits and use it to leave God by the wayside. Natural selection is his creation and not the lie of evolution.
I don't doubt what you, the atheists, and others state in this thread (even gave credit to the OP), but natural selection doesn't mean evolution. It isn't what led to development of all life forms today. Natural selection redistributes or reduces pre-existing genetic information and mutations corrupt that information.
Natural selection is what God created to ensure survival of the fittest no matter what Darwin claimed.
