Abstract: Many major fields of science were founded by Bible-believing Christians.
A number of these are listed and discussed. Newton, Faraday, Kelvin, and Maxwell,
who are among the greatest physicists in history, were all Bible-believing Christians.

Many of the major fields of science were founded by Christians. This information
was taken from the book Men of Science, Men of God by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.

1. Johann Kepler (1571-1630) was the founder of physical astronomy. Kepler wrote
"Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of
nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather,
above all else, of the glory of God.

?2. Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is credited with being the father of modern chemistry.
He also was active in financially supporting the spread of Christianity through
missions and Bible translations.

3. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was one of the greatest early mathematicians, laid
the foundations for hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, differential calculus, and
the theory of probability. To him is attributed the famous Wager of 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 nonbelieving 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!"

4. John Ray (1627-1705) was the father of English natural history, considered
the greatest zoologist and botanist of his day. He also wrote a book, "The wisdom
of God Manifested In The Works of Creation."

5. Nicolaus Steno (1631-1686) was the father of Stratigraphy. He believed that
fossils were laid down in the strata as a result of the flood of Noah. He also
wrote many theological works and late in his life took up religious orders.

6. William Petty (1623-1687) helped found the science of statistics and the
modern study of economics. He was an active defender of the Christian faith
and wrote many papers sharing evidence of God’s design in nature.

7. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) invented calculus, discovered the law of gravity
and the three laws of motion, anticipated the law of energy conservation, developed
the particle theory of light propagation, and invented the reflecting telescope.
He firmly believed in Jesus Christ as his Savior and the Bible as God’s word, and
wrote many books on these topics.

8. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) was the father of biological taxonomy. His system
of classification is still in use today. One of his main goals in systematizing
the varieties of living creatures was an attempt to delineate the original Genesis
"kinds." He firmly believed in the Genesis account as literal history.

9. Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest physicists of all time,
developed foundational concepts in electricity and magnetism, invented the electrical
generator, and made many contributions to the field of chemistry. He was active
in the various ministries of his church, both private and public, and had an abiding
faith in the Bible and in prayer.

10. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) was the founder of the science of comparative
anatomy and one of the chief architects of paleontology as a separate scientific
discipline. He was a firm creationist, participating in some of the important
creation/evolution debates of his time.

11. Charles Babbage (1792-1871) was the founder of computer science. He developed
information storage and retrieval systems, and used punched cards for instruction
sets and data sets in automated industrial controls. He was also a Christian
with strong convictions and wrote an important book defending the Bible and miracles.

12. John Dalton (1766-1844) was the father of atomic theory, which revolutionized
chemistry. He was an orthodox, Bible-believing Christian.

13. Matthew Maury (1806-1873) was the founder of oceanography. He believed that
when Psalm 8:8 in the Bible talked about "paths in the seas," that there must
therefore be paths in the seas. He dedicated his life to charting the winds
and currents of the Atlantic and was able to confirm that the sea did indeed
have paths, just as spoken of in the Bible.

14. James Simpson (1811-1879) discovered chloroform and laid the foundation
for anesthesiology. He said his motivation to perform the research leading to
this discovery was a fascination in the book of Genesis with Adam’s deep sleep
during the time in which Eve was fashioned from his side. He said his biggest discovery
was finding Jesus Christ as Savior.

15. James Joule (1818-1889) discovered the mechanical equivalent of heat, laying
the foundation for the field of thermodynamics. Joule also had a strong Christian
faith.

16. Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was the father of glacial geology and a great
paleontologist. He believed in God and in His special creation of every kind
of organism. When Darwin’s Origin began to gain favor, Agassiz spoke out strongly
against it.

17. Gregory Mendel (1822-1884) was the father of genetics. He had strong religious
convictions and chose the life of a monk. He was a creationist and rejected
Darwins’s ideas, even though he was familiar with them.

?18. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was the father of bacteriology. He established
the germ theory of disease. His persistent objections to the theory of spontaneous
generation and to Darwinism made him unpopular with the scientific establishment
of his day. He was a Christian with extremely strong religious convictions.

19. William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) is considered one of the all-time
great physicists. He established thermodynamics on a formal scientific basis,
providing a precise statement of the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Lord Kelvin was a strong Christian, opposing both Lyellian uniformitarianism
and Darwinian evolution. In 1903, shortly before his death, he made the unequivocal
statement that, "With regard to the origin of life, science…positively affirms
creative power."

?20. Joseph Lister (1827-1912) founded antiseptic surgical methods. Lister’s
contributions have probably led to more lives being saved through modern medicine
than the contributions of any one else except Pasteur. Like Pasteur, Lister
was also a Christian and wrote, "I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."

21. Joseph Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) developed a comprehensive theoretical and
mathematical framework for electromagnetic field theory. Einstein called Maxwell’s
contributions "the most profound and most fruitful that physics has experienced
since the time of Newton." Maxwell rejected the theory of evolution and wrote that
God’s command to man to subdue the earth, found in the first chapter of the
book of Genesis in the Bible, provided the personal motivation to him for pursuing
his scientific work. He acknowledged a personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord
and Savior.

22. Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) developed the concept of non-Euclidian geometry,
which was used by Einstein in his development of the theory of relativity. Riemann
was also a Christian and had hoped to go into the ministry until he got sidetracked
by his interest in mathematics. He apparently made several efforts to prove
the
validity of the book of Genesis using mathematical principles.

?23. Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817-1901) was a chemist who developed the use of
nitrogen and superphosphate fertilizers for farm crops and co-developed the
world’s first agricultural experimental station. He thus laid the foundations
for the advances in agricultural science which have provided the means for farmers
to feed the large populations in the world today. Gilbert is yet another scientist
with a strong faith and demonstrated this by signing the Scientist’s Declaration,
in which he affirmed his faith in the Bible as the Word of God and expressed
his disbelief in and opposition to Darwin’s theories.

24. Thomas Anderson (1819-1874) was one of the initial workers in the field
of organic chemistry, discovering pyridine and other organic bases. Like Gilbert,
he also signed the Scientist’s Declaration, in which he affirmed his faith in
the scientific accuracy of the Bible and the validity of the Christian faith.

25. William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was among the greatest of all archeologists.
He acquired "liberal" theological beliefs during his days as a university student.
However, as he began to make various archaeological discoveries in Asia Minor,
he began to see that archaeology confirmed the accuracy of the Bible and as a result
he became converted to Christianity.

26. John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) was the inventor of the Fleming valve which
provided the foundation for subsequent advances in electronics. He studied under
Maxwell, was a consultant to Thomas Edison, and also for Marconi. He also had
very strong Christian beliefs and acted on those beliefs by helping found an organization
called the "Evolution Protest Movement." He wrote a major book against the theory
of evolution.

?27. Werner Von Braun (1912-1977) was the father of space science. He wrote,
."..the vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the
certainty of its Creator. I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who
does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence
of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances
of science."

28. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), formulator of the theory of relativity, which
is one of the single greatest intellectual accomplishments in the history of
man. Einstein was Jewish and thus did not follow in the Christian tradition
of Newton or Faraday. He did not believe in a personal God, such as is revealed
even in the Jewish Bible. Yet, he was overwhelmed by the order and organization
of the universe and believed this demonstrated that there was a Creator.

?So, many if not most of the major branches of science were founded by Bible-believing
Christians. As a physicist I also find it intriguing that the five greatest
physicists in history–Newton, Faraday, Thompson, Maxwell, and Einstein–were
each outspoken in their belief that the universe was placed here by a Creator. Furthermore,
four of the five were staunch Christians with firm convictions that the Bible
is the authoritative Word of God.

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