What led James Hutton to propose the the Earth must be extremely?

James Hutton transformed our concepts of the earth and the universe by deciphering the message carried by common rocks. He discovered that our planet is enormously older than people believed. He gathered evidence with his own eyes rather than relying on what 'everyone knows' or the written word.

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