Tom's obviously not an American! Although, on the bright side, I think it's mostly a matter of time, things that seem easily explainable in 5 minutes to us, would have required the learning, and a fair bit of money, for "doctorate level" scientists of Hutton's time. So too, things like "Dark Energy" for example, will be completely understandable for "high schoolers" in the near future.  I'm scratching my head why this isn't obvious to Tom.