Scientists Through History Who Believed the Bible
SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE THE BIBLE
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“Many of the great scientists of the past who founded and developed the key disciplines of science were creationists. Note the following sampling;
Physics: Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin
Chemistry: Boyle, Dalton, Ramsay
Biology: Ray, Linnaeus, Mendel, Pasteur
Geology: Steno, Woodward, Brewster, Agassiz
Astronomy: Kepler, Galileo (It was the Roman Catholic church that opposed Galileo, not the Christian Church.), Herschel, Maunder
“These men, as well as scores of others who could be mentioned, were creationists, not evolutionists, and their names are practically synonymous with the rise of modern science. To them, the scientific enterprise was a high calling, one dedicated to thinking God’s thoughts after Him.” Henry M. Morris and Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science?
Harvey, Boyle, Faraday, and Maxwell were all committed Christians. Boyle (the first scientist to show the difference between compounds and elements) was a lay preacher. Faraday (the discoverer of electromagnetic induction) once read only from the Bible for a sermon, saying his words could add nothing to God’s. Maxwell (who discovered magnetic flux) penned these words: “Lord, it belongs not to my care, whether I die or live. To love and serve Thee is my share, and that Thy guard must give.”
Astronomer Johann Kepler believed, “The chief aim of all investigation of external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God.”
Lord Kelvin wrote, “With regard to the origin of life, science…positively affirms creative power.”
Much of modern scientific knowledge is built on the discoveries of other Bible-believing scientists:
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519): Experimental science, physics
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Scientific method
- Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872): Telegraph
- William Petty (1623-1687): Statistics, scientific economics
- William Derham (1657-1735): Ecology
- James Joule (1818-1889): Thermodynamics
- Henri Fabre (1823-1915): Entomology of living insects
- Joseph Henry (1797-1878): Electric motor, galvanometer
“Science is the glimpse of God’s purpose in nature. The very existence of the amazing world of the atom and radiation points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything…An orderly universe testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered: ‘In the beginning, God…’” Arthur H. Compton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Sir Isaac Newton considered his theological writings more important than his scientific writings. He stated, “There is a Being who made all things, who holds all things in His power, and is therefore to be feared.”
He also wrote, “All material things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles above-mentioned, variously associated in the first creation by the counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became Him who created them to set them in order. And if He did so, it’s un-philosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of nature.”
Joseph Lister founded antiseptic surgical methods. lister’s contributions to medical science have probably led to more lives being saved through modern medicine that the contributions of anyone else except Pasteur. Like Louis Pasteur, Lister was a Christian. He wrote, “I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.”
Blasie Pascal was one of history’s greatest mathematicians. he laid the foundations for hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, differential calculus, and the theory of probability. he is famous for the “Wager os Pascal,” paraphrased as follows:
How can anyone lose who chooses to be a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing-in fact, has been happier in life than his non-believing friends. If, however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!
Sir John Frederick Herschel, and English astronomer who discovered over 500 stars, stated: “All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the Sacred Writings.”
His father, Sir William Herschel, also a renowned astronomer, rightly insisted, “The undevout astronomer must be mad.”
Albert Einstein was not an atheist as some professing atheists claim. He didn’t accept the God of the Bible, but he wasn’t a fool. He knew that there was a Creator. Look at his own wordds about faith and science:
Science can only be created by those who are throughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith.
Dr. James Simpson, born in 19811, was responsible for the discovery of chloroform’s anesthetic qualities, leading to its medical use worldwide. He also laid a solid foundation for gynecology and predicted the discovery of the x-ray. Dr. Simpson was president of the Royal Medical Society and Royal Physician to the Queen, the highest medical position of his day. He stated, “Christianity works because it is supremely true and therefore supremely livable. There is nothing incompatible between religion and science.”
When asked what his greatest discovery was, Dr. Simpson replied: “It was not chloroform. It was to know that I am a sinner and that I could be saved by the grace of God. A man has missed the whole meaning of life if he has not entered into an active, living relationship with God through Christ.”
