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In a classroom everybody wants to sit next to the smart kid.  Mostly to look smart or for cpoying during the exams ;-)

The brains of our era who contributed so much to mankind believed in theism.  I bet they would have also struggled with world views contradictory to theirs.  Processed in their brilliant minds the non theistic world views could not find fertile grounds to over turn their belief the Creator...

Here is a list of well known contributors to science who held on to theism.  There must be many more other than this list of Western Scientists only...


“All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the Truths come from on High and contained in the Sacred Writings.” John Herschel (1791-1871) discoverer of over 500 new nebulas.

H.S. Lipson a Physicist quoted in 1980 saying. “In fact, evolution became, in a sense, a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to “Bend” their observations to fit with it. .. To my mind, the theory [evolution] does not                                         stand up at all.

Some Western Scientists Who Believed in God
Albert of Bollstadt (Albert Magnus)      1193/1206-1280          Alchemist

Leonardo da Vinci                       1452-1519           Physics, art

Nicholas Copernicus                1473-1543          Taught the planets revolved around an immoveable sun

Tycho Brahe                           1545-1601          At least a theist

John Napier                           1550-1617          Discoverer of logarithms, he was a strong Protestant who in 1594 wrote, “Plaine     Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John”

Francis Bacon                    1561-1626          Scientific method

Galileo Galilei                    1564-1642          Telescope, gravity, solar system

Johann Kepler                    1571-1626          Planet’s elliptical orbits

William Harvey                1578-1657          Circulation of blood. At least a theist.

Puritans                             1600-1700          A higher percentage of Puritans were in the English Royal Society than in the
general population

Athanasius Kircher               1601-1680          Jesuit who anticipated the germ theory and wrote of Noah’s flood

John Wilkins                    1614-1672          Scientist and clergyman who wrote how Noah’s ark would be of adequate size to
fit all of the animals.

Walter Charleton               1619-1707          President of the Royal College of Physicians who wrote on the flood and miracles

Blaise Pascal                    1623-1662          Math, fluid flow

Robert Boyle                    1627-1691          Boyle’s law - chemistry. Learned Hebrew, Greek, Syriac. Founded the Boyle lectures to prove Christianity vs. atheists, theists, pagans, Jews, and Muslims.

John Ray                     1627-1705          Natural history

Nicolaus Steno                    1631-1686          Stratigraphy

Thomas Burnet               1635-1715          Geologist and clergyman

Nicolas Lemery                    1645-1715          Chemist who converted to Catholicism

Sir William Petty               1623-1687          Statistics, economics

Christiaan Huygens               1629-1695          Huygen’s Principle. At least a theist

Isaac Barrow                    1630-1677          Cambridge math prof. who taught Newton. He later retired to teach God’s Word

Robert Hooke                    1635-1703          Physicist and geologist. Hooke’s Law of elasticity. At least a theist

Increase Mather               1639-1723          Son of Cotton Mather, astronomer on comets, theologian, and one of the first presidents of Harvard.

Nehemiah Grew               1641-1712          Physician and botanist. Protestant who wrote on the unique creative design of plants and animals.

Isaac Newton                    1642-1727          Co-inventor of calculus, gravity, Newton’s 3 laws

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz     1646-1716          Co-inventor of calculus, and anticipated Boolean algebra

John Flamsteed               1646-1719          Founded the Greenwich observatory

William Derham               1657-1735          Ecology

Cotton Mather                    1662-1727          Published treatises on “animacules” causing smallpox, and President of Harvard

John Woodward               1665-1728          Paleontology

John Harris                    1666-1719          Mathematician, clergyman, Wrote an English dictionary 1704

William Whiston               9 Dec 1667-22 Aug 1752          Succeeded Isaac Newton at Cambridge. Wrote on flood geology.
Translated Josephus and was an Arian like Newton. He thought the Tatars were the lost tribes, and the Millennium would start in 1766.

John Hutchinson               1674-1737          Paleontologist who wrote on the flood. Also studied Hebrew.

Bayes                         1702-1761          Probability, Presbyterian minister

Benjamin Franklin               1706-1790          Believed in God, unsure about Christ’s divinity, had a mistress, was perhaps the
last person who could know all of science.

Carolus Linnaeus               1707-1778          Taxonomy-classified life

Leonard Euler                    1707-1783          Mathematician and physicist

Gustavus Brander               1720-1787          Paleontologist who wrote on the flood

Jean Deluc                    1727-1817          Coined the word geology. He and his father invented the barometer. Wrote of a
worldwide flood.

Richard Kirwan                    1733-1812          Mineralogy

Joseph Townsend               1738-1816          English geologist and clergyman published much of William Smith’s work

William Herschel               1738-1822          Discovered Uranus, galactic astronomy

Antoine Lavoisier               1743-1794          A Catholic

James Parkinson               1755-1824          Perforated appendix, Parkinson’s disease, wrote on the flood and coal from plants

Alessandro Volta               1745-1827          First electric battery; Christian

William Kirby                    1759-1850          Entomologist and English clergyman

Benjamin Barton               1766-1815          Physician, biologist, recent creationist

Thomas Malthus               1766-1834          Economics, over-population, clergyman

John Dalton                    9/15/1766-7/17/1844     Atomic theory, Dalton’s law of gases. Quaker

Georges Cuvier               1769-1832          Comparative anatomy

Samuel Miller                    1770-1840          Presbyterian minister and influential science writer chronicling the 18th century,

Thomas Young                    1773-1829          Double-slit experiment

Charles Bell                    1774-1842          Anatomist and surgeon

Andre Marie Ampere          1775-1836          Father of electrodynamics

John Kidd                            1775-1851          Chemical synthetics

Hans Christian Oersted          1777-1851          Electromagnetism

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss     1777-1855          Gauss’s Law

Humphrey Davy               1778-1829          Thermokinetics, safety lamp

Benjamin Silliman               1779-1864          Mineralogy, geology, founded the American Journal of Science

Peter Mark Roget               1779-1869          Physician and physiologist, Roget’s Thesaurus

Thomas Chalmers               1780-1847          Social scientist, professor of theology, popularized the “gap theory”

David Brewster               1781-1868          Optical mineralogy, kaleidoscope, opposed Darwinism

William Buckland               1784-1856          Geologist and priest in the Church of England

William Prout                    1785-1850          Food chemistry

Adam Sedgwick               1785-1873          Named Cambrian and Devonian periods. A friend of Darwin but against
evolutionary ideas, saying the result would be harmful.

Augustin L. Cauchy               1789-1857          Developed infinitesimal calculus and studied permutation groups. He was friends
with Lagrange and Laplace.

George Boole                    1815-1864          Irish mathematician. He developed Boolean algebra

Michael Faraday               1791-1867          Electromagnetics

Sam. F.B. Morse               1791-1872          Elegraph

John Herschel                    1792-1871          Son of William, he found 500 nebulas

Charles Babbage               1792-1871          Computer science, Operations research, Opthamaloscope, mathematical analysis
of Biblical miracles

Edward Hitchcock               1793-1864          Geologist in Mass. And Vermont, against Darwinism

William Whewell               1794-1866          Anemometer

Joseph Henry                    1797-1866          Electric motor, galvanometer; http://siarchives.si.edu

Richard Owen                    1804-1892          Zoology, paleontology, non-Christian theist against Darwinism

Matthew Maury               1806-1873          Oceanography

Louis Agassiz                    1807-1873          Glaciers, fish, most famous biologist behind Darwin


Henry Rogers                    1808-1866          Geology of the Appalachians , wrote of the universal flood

James Glaisher                    1809-1903          Founded the British Meteorological Society

Phillip H. Gosse               1810-1888          Ornithologist. Plymouth Brethren, said the earth was young, but fossils and
sediments created with appearance of age

Henry Rawlinson               1810-1895          Deciphered Behistun inscription

James Simpson               1811-1870          Anesthesiology, gynecology

James Dana                    1813-1895          President of the Geological Society of America, theistic evolutionist

Joseph Henry Gilbert          1817-1901          Agricultural chemist, apposed Darwinism

James Joule                    1818-1889          A unit of energy is named after him

Thomas Anderson               1819-1874          Discovered pyridine, opposed Darwinism

George Gabriel Stokes          1819-1903          Viscosity and Stokes Law in fluid flow

Charles Piazzi Smyth          1819-1900          Astronomer, studied Egyptian pyramids. Weird guy influential in Anglo-Israelism
error

John William Dawson          1820-1899          Canadian geologist and old-earth Creationist

Gregor Mendel                    1822-1884          Mendelian genetics

Louis Pasteur                    1822-1895          Bacteriology, biochemistry, sterilization, immunology. Opposed Evolution

Henri Fabre                    1823-1915          Entomology of living insects

Lord Kelvin (William Thompson)1824-1907          A unit of temperature is named after him, Atlantic cable

William Huggins               1824-1910          Astral spectrometry

Bernhard Riemann (Georg F.B. Riemann)1826-1866          Non-Euclidean geometries, Riemann space

Joseph Lister                    1827-1912          Antiseptic surgery

Balfour Stewart               1828-1887          Electricity in ionosphere

Joseph Clerk Maxwell          1831-1879          Maxwell’s law in electrodynamics, statistical thermodynamics

P. G. Tait                            1831-1901          Vector analysis

Josiah Gibbs                    1839-1903          Chemical thermodynamics

Osborne Reynolds               1842-1912          Reynold’s Number in fluid flow

Sir William Abney               1843-1920          Interstellar molecules, son of a clergyman

Alexander MacAlister          1844-1919          Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge

A.H. Sayce                    1845-1933          Expert on the Hittites

John Bell Pettigrew               1848-1894          President of the Royal Medical society. Allowed for evolution and design

George Romanes               1848-1894          Biologist, physiologist. Christian, personal friend of Darwin, lost his faith, returned
to Christianity, unclear if a theistic evolutionist or creationist.

Lord Rayleigh  (John Strutt)     1849-1919          Fluid flow, successor to Maxwell at Cambridge

John Ambrose Fleming          1849-1945          Electronics, electron tube, thermionic valve

Edward H. Maunder               1851-1928          Astronomer at Greenwich

William Mitchell Ramsay          1851-1939          One of the two greatest archaeologists. Liberal who became a conservative
Christian

Sir William Ramsay (born in Glasgow)     1852-1916          Discovered argon, isotopic chemistry, transmuting elements. Founded
the Indian Institute of Technology

Howard A. Kelly                    1858-1943          Gynecology/Obstetrics prof. at Johns Hopkins. Wrote A Scientific Man and His
Bible.

George Washington Carver     1864-1943          Authority on peanuts and sweet potatoes at the Tuskegee Institute

Wilbur and Orville Wright          1867-1912, 1871-1948     First successful flight 12/17/1903. Wilbur assisted his father in legal work for
the Church of the United Brethren in Christ

Robert A. Millikan               1868-1953          1923 Nobel (physics)

Douglas Dewar               1875-1957          Wrote books on evolution prior to being a creationist Christian

Paul Lemoine                    1878-1940          Ex-evolutionist and President of the Geological Society of France

Albert Einstein                    1879-1955          Non-practicing Jew who firmly believed in God

Charles Stine                    1882-1954          An organic chemist with DuPont. Wrote the booklet, “A Chemist and His Bible”

A. Rendle Short               1885-1955          Professor of surgery

L. Merson Davies               1890-1960          Geology, paleontology

Sir Cecil P. G. Wakeley          1892-1979          Surgeon, president of the Bible League

Theodosius Dobzhansky          1900-1975          Ukrainian research of fruit flies. A signer of the 1950 UNESCO document, The
Race Question, which refuted Nazi racial scientific claims. Wrote Genetics and the Origin of Species. A Russian Orthodox whose
belief in God was similar to the Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin’s. Dobzhansky criticized the pope’s anti-evolutionary views and
protestant creationists.

Werner Heisenberg               1901-1976          Uncertain which principle he found

Werner von Braun               1912-1977          Lutheran German. Famous rocket scientist

A.E. Wilder-Smith               1915-1995          Phys. org. chemistry. 70 pubs. and 30 books.

Lane P. Lester                    Living               Wrote Natural Limits to Biological Change

Hugh Ross                    Living               Astronomer

Michael Denton               1943- Living          Molecular biologist who wrote Evolution : A Theory in Crisis that was influential in
the Intelligent Design movement. Later he changed his views and believed more in evolution

Charles Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, Clarence Meninga     Living     Molecular biologists. Authored The Mystery of Life’s Origin

Thomas G. Barnes               Living               Wrote Origin and Destiny of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

William A. Dembski               Living               Math, Intelligent Design

Robert Newman               Living               Intelligent Design

Dean H. Kenyon               Living               Biology, Biophysics

Jeffrey P. Schloss               Living               Ecology, evolutionary biology, Int. Design

Jonathan Wells               Living               Cell biology

Howard J. Van Till               Living               Astronomer, wrote The Fourth Day

Davis A. Young               Living               Old-earth geologist, wrote Christianity & The Age of the Earth.

Creation Research Society     1963: 10 scientists     Over 700 scientists

H.S. Lipson                             1980          Physicist.

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*Theism, in the broadest sense, is the belief that at least one deity exists