Gee Fred, then you would you prefer to believe there are no liars? I've read all I care to about Darwin and Lyell and have come to the conclusion they consistently and deliberately misrepresented and/or ignored evidence that presented itself. Not just once, but over and over; again and again. Would you prefer to label them discombobulators??? Sugar coating what to me is obvious doesn't change anything. Look at the evidence.
I can’t call a theory a lie when that theory was arrived at through the limited evidence that was then available to the theorists.
Maybe I would understand better what you mean by lying, if you gave me an example.
Just how did Hutton, Lyell and Darwin lie? I have no argument with their achievements. They all left a body of valuable work, my argument isn’t with them, it’s with the geologists who haven’t moved out of the 18th century.