The year 1975 is one which members of the uniformitarian establishment might have been expected to notice. In fact, the anticipated flourish of trumpets and roll of drums has been strangely missing. It is left up to creationists, then, to comment on the occasion. The year, in fact, is the anniversary of Charles Lyell’s death. Lyell’s theories in geology went along with Darwin’s in biology. It is shown here that not only do the two "theories" go together, but also there is similarity in the ways, not always in accord with good scientific practice, in which the "theories" were promoted.