If atheists dislike Christians so much, why don't they shun all the scientific contributions these Christians made, which you continue to benefit from today?
Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630, discoverer of the laws of planetary motion
Johannes Baptista van Helmont, 1579-1644, founder of pneumatic chemistry and chemical physiology
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, 1618-1663, discoverer of the diffraction of light, Catholic
Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, mathematical prodigy and universal genius
Robert Boyle, 1627-1691, founder of modern chemistry
John Ray, 1627-1705, cataloguer of British flora and fauna, Calvinist
Isaac Barrow, 1630-1677, Newton's teacher
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 1632-1723, discoverer of bacteria
Niels Seno, 1638-1686, founder of geology
James Bradley, 1693-1762, discoverer of the aberration of starlight
Ewald Georg von Kleist, 1700-1748, inventor of the Leyden jar
Carolus Linnaeus, 1707-1778, classifier of all living things
Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783, mathematician
John Dalton, 1766-1844, founder of atomic theory
Thomas Young, 1773-1829, first to conduct a double-slit experiment with light
David Brewster, 1781-1868, researcher of polarized light
William Buckland, 1784-1856, geologist of Noah's flood
Adem Sedgwick, 1785-1873, geologist of the Cambrian
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, 1788-1827, physicist of light waves
Augustin Louis Cauchy, 1789-1857, soul winning mathematician
Michael Faraday, 1791-1867, electrical research
John Frederick William Herschel, 1792-1871, catalogued the Southern skies
Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806-1873, Gulf currents
Philip Henry Gosse, 1810-1888, naturalist
Asa Gray, 1810-1888, botanist
James Dwight Dana, 1813-1895, systemated-minerology
George Boole, 1815-1864, discovered pure mathematics
James Prescott Joule, 1818-1889, originator of Joule's Law
John Couch Adams, 1819-1892, co-discoverer of Neptune
George Gabriel Stokes, 1819-1903, theorist of fluorescence
Gregor Mendel, 1822-1884, pioneer in genetics
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907, physicist of thermodynamics
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, 1829-1907, non-Euclidean geometer behind relativity theory
James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879, father of modern physics
Edward William Morley, 1838-1923, measured the speed of light
Pierre-Maurice-Marie Duhem, 1861-1923, physicist who recovered the science of the Middle Ages
Georges Lemaitre, 1894-1966, Priest who found the universe is expanding
George Washington Carver, c. 1864-1943, chemurgy
Arthur Stanley Eddington, 1882-1944, Astronomer of stellar theory
Some of the most Influential scientists who were Christians: these individuals could be considered among history's most influential and famous scientists, who also happen to have been devout Christians of various denominations:
Roger Bacon
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Baptista van Helmont
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Carolus Linnaeus
Leonhard Euler
John Dalton
Michael Faraday
John Frederick William Herschel
Matthew Fontaine Maury
James Prescott Joule
Gregor Mendel
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
James Clerk Maxwell
George Washington Carver
Arthur Stanley Eddington
And in the second source below, there are 15 British scientists of today who contribute to the book to show why they are both scientists and Christians.
Answered By: Sasi - 10/31/2012 |