"James Clerk Maxwell was the one who objected based on his calculated maximum age of the sun. He had a pretty good calculation going -- almost as valid as the probability estimates being touted by creationists today."
Then I guess you could say he was right, but for the wrong reason.
If you are going to "appeal to authority," you can't do much better than James Clerk Maxwell. I suspect that everyone here has heard of Maxwell's equations of electromagnetics.
You could say that, but you would be wrong.
All the evidence is that he was wrong.
Has everyone here heard that electromagnetism isn't biology or geology?