bettyboop: There is no basis to project an observation in a controlled experiment to the whole of the universe.
bezelbub: So, do you have an alternative? Which observations can be generalized? Which not?
bettyboop: The experiment itself is an artificial construct, and what is viewed is abstracted from the context in which it naturally occurs.
bezelbub: Wow, that's a quite artificial differentiation.
So, what's your problem with uniformitarianism?
It's an "ism." That is, a construct of the human mind. It is an abstraction from reality, not reality itself.