evolutionist. Charles Lyell, in turn, was greatly influenced by the uniformitarian geology of the deist James Hutton (1726–1797). Lyell’s theory was a radical uniformitarianism in which he insisted that only present-day processes at present-day rates of intensity and magnitude should be used to interpret the rock record.11 Thus the roots of these ideas (of vast ages and evolution) are clearly anti-biblical and anti-Christian. What about the fruit of these ideas? The list of evil fruit seems almost