James Hutton Saw the Obvious and Significant Data Right Under his Nose

Why is it that some scientists are cognitively blindsighted by greatly disturbing, yet obvious and significant, facts that are right under their noses?

James Hutton,
Agriculturalist and Geologist

An excellent website    has this to say about the Scottish geologist and agricultural scientists James Hutton, a man who could uniquely see and understand the significance of the obvious facts around us:

'James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer and naturalist, is known as the founder of modern geology. He was a great observer of the world around him. More importantly, he made carefully reasoned geological arguments. Hutton came to believe that the Earth was perpetually being formed; for example, molten material is forced up into mountains, eroded, and then eroded sediments are washed away. He recognized that the history of the Earth could be determined by understanding how processes such as erosion and sedimentation work in the present day. His ideas and approach to studying the Earth established geology as a proper science.

In the late eighteenth century, when Hutton was carefully examining the rocks, it was generally believed that Earth had come into creation only around six thousand years earlier (on October 22, 4004 B.C., to be precise, according to the seventeenth century scholarly analysis of the Bible by Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland), and that fossils were the remains of animals that had perished during the Biblical flood. As for the structure of the Earth, “natural philosophers” agreed that much bedrock consisted of long, parallel layers which occurred at various angles, and that sediments deposited by water were compressed to form stone. Hutton perceived that this sedimentation takes place so slowly that even the oldest rocks are made up of, in his words, “materials furnished from the ruins of former continents.” The reverse process occurs when rock exposed to the atmosphere erodes and decays. He called this coupling of destruction and renewal the “great geological cycle,” and realized that it had been completed innumerable times.

Hutton came to his chosen field by quite a roundabout route. Born in Edinburgh in 1726, he studied medicine and chemistry at the Universities of Edinburgh, Paris, and Leiden, in the Netherlands, and then spent fourteen years running two small family farms. It was farming that gave rise to Hutton’s obsession with how the land could hold its own against the destructive forces of wind and weather he saw at work around him. Hutton began to devote his scientific knowledge, his philosophical turn of mind, and his extraordinary powers of observation to a subject that had only recently acquired a name: geology.'

One recognition of the obvious and significant facts leads to another

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Patrick Matthew and his wife Christian

Without Hutton's many prior-published original observations on the great age of the Earth, his fellow Scot - Patrick Matthew (1831), the Originator of the theory of natural selection - could never have conceived how new species emerge by ramifying from a common ancestor, following unimaginable lengths of time in which different varieties form and die - those that succeed being selected by the 'natural process of selection' in nature to be most circumstance adapted to their environment, to become, eventually, new species.

Matthew solved the problem of the origin of species 27 years before his ideas were replicated by Darwin and Wallace claimed to have conceived the same theory independently of Matthew's prior publication.

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Nullius in Verba

In March I am Keynote speaker at the James Hutton Institute   , where I am presenting a paper on the findings that were originally discovered between 2103 and 2014, and were first published in my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret.   

During my stay in Scotland in March, I will be the special guest of the Carse of Gowrie Sustainability Group.     I will give one or two other lectures on this topic. visit what remains of the ancient orchards of the Carse of Gowrie,   visit the Matthew Giant Redwood trees   , visit the newly discovered site of Matthew's grave   , and meet children from nine local primary schools who have been studying the life and work of Matthew.

The carse of Gowrie is the area of Scotland where Patrick Matthew lived at Gourdiehill. It s where he conceived the theory of natural selection..

I have been asked to provide a written biography of my work on this topic explain how on Earth it is that after 155 years of scientists being in a state of denial about the facts of Darwin's lying and plagiarizing science fraud by glory theft of Matthew's prior-published discovery that I - a criminologist - was first toe see and appreciate the obvious and significant facts that have been right under the noses of Darwin scholars these past 155 years.

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Gourdiehill in the Carse of Gowrie, Scotland, the seat of Patrick Matthew esquire - the originator of the theory of natural slection

My  Public Lecture at the James Hutton Institute 

In the brief auto-biography that I wrote to accompany my 2016 James Hutton Institute public lecture, you can read my explanation for why I was not blindsided by the deeply disturbing facts of Charles Darwin's plagiarising science fraud here   .