Is There a Jump From One Criteria to Another?

Before modern geology and glaciation theory was accounting for things, these were at least especially in Europe. What's true about things on the earth has to be true about things in the rest of the universe. Our world is not special with respect to it. The rules on the moon are the same as the rules down here. Those are principles that then govern conclusions,. But the operation of that kind of thinking seems to me to be like this riverbed stuff, right?