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FEUDING PARTIES

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) – physicist, grand old man of British science

vs

Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) – geologist;

Charles Darwin (1809–82) – naturalist;

T.H. Huxley (1825–95) – biologist;

and many others

DATE

1861–1904

CAUSE OF FEUD

Debate over the age of the Earth

Early scientists, including Newton, generally believed that the biblical account of the Creation was literally true, and therefore that the internal chronology of the Bible could be used to calculate the age of the Earth. Newton himself arrived at a figure of around 6,000 years but it was the Anglo–Irish Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, who, in a feat of formidable scholarship, determined that Creation began in the early hours of Sunday, 23 October 4004 BCE.