Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism __________.

• A. was rejected by Darwin in favor of catastrophism
• B. was compatible with the idea of Earth being only a few thousand years old
• C. was similar to Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
• D. states that current geologic processes are very different from those that operated in the past
• E. strongly influenced Darwin's view of how living organisms could change over time