Lord Kelvin was a creationist (Talk.Origins)

Claim CA114.1:

Lord Kelvin was a creationist and strong opponent of evolution.

Source: Morris, Henry M. 1982. Bible-believing scientists of the past. Impact 103 (Jan.), http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=185

CreationWiki response:

This Talk Origins response is an example of careless reading. It claims that Lord Kelvin believed in evolution guided by intelligence, but the words that support that in their quote from Kelvin are words of Darwin and of Mr Grove.

For example:

In other words, he is politely disagreeing with Mr Grove!

Note the phrase "if evolution there has been". Those are hardly the words of someone who believes in evolution.

Lord Kelvin was a physicist and his arguments were more on the subject of the age of the earth and the sun. He strongly argued, with reasons that are still valid, that there was no evidence for a long age of either earth or sun and that the earth was no more than 40 million years old. Given that, he is hardly likely to have believed in evolution as presented by Darwin and Huxley, which absolutely requires long ages in which to work. On the other hand, he does not seem to have been what we would now call a Young Earth Creationist.

See also: http://www.icr.org/article/63/

Lord Kelvin era um criacionista (Talk.Origins)