|quote=Another well known scientist who found the idea of a beginning repugnant is Sir John Maddox, a former editor of Nature. He pronounced the idea of a beginning 'thoroughly unacceptable', because it implied an 'ultimate origin of the world', and gave creationist 'ample justification' for their beliefs.}}</ref>
==Controversies==
In 1878 the journal published the article on the ' ''Discovery of Vulcan'' ', a non-existent hypothetical planet that was believed by naturalist scientits to must exist due to the shift in the [[perihelion]] of planet [[Mercury]].<ref name="Vulcan">{{cite web
|author=Lewis Swift