James Hutton revolutionized our understanding of the Earth by hypothesizing that the time required to shape the Earth was very great.

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James Hutton's theory of geological time, published in his book "Theory of the Earth" in 1795, proposed that the Earth was shaped over an immensely long period of time through slow and gradual processes, rather than through sudden catastrophic events as previously believed. This revolutionized our understanding of Earth's history and helped establish the principles of modern geology.

James Hutton Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Earth by Hypothesizing