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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I like the story of the physicist, Lord Kelvin, arguing that the Sun could not have been around long enough for Darwin's evolution to have occurred on the Earth. It turned out Darwin was right.
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Yes - the fact that the Sun could not possibly have existed for more than a few million years (by any method known to 19th century science) without burning out was a major stumbling block when evidence emerged that the Earth was, at a minimum, hundreds of millions (as it eventually turned out, several billion) years old. Then, of course, nuclear physics was discovered, and it all made sense.