James Hutton concluded that Earth must be very old and wrote that "we find no vestige of a beginning, and no prospect of an end."

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James Hutton, often considered the father of modern geology, proposed the idea of deep time, suggesting Earth's age to be immensely old, far older than previously thought, and famously remarked that in the geological record, there is "no vestige of a beginning, and no prospect of an end."

James Hutton Concluded That Earth Must Be Very Old and Wrote