Lord Kelvin on Divine Revelation
In the “Life of Lord Kelvin,” recently published, are some interesting statements as to the great scientist’s views on divine revelation. On hearing read from Darwin’s works the passage “in which he expresses his disbelief in divine revelation and in any evidence of design, he pronounced such views utterly unscientific, and vehemently maintained that our power of discussing and speculating about atheism and materialism was enough to disprove them. Evolution, he declared, would not in the least degree explain the great mystery of nature and creation. If all things originated in a single germ, then that germ contained in it all the marvels of creation—physical, intellectual, and spiritual—to be afterwards developed. It was impossible that atoms of dead matter should come together so as to make life.”—Present Truth.