Old Head Wisdoms(@OldHeadWisdoms):Historical founders of modern science who were theists These framed their science as reading "God's book of nature,". Isaac Newton — devout but heterodox (anti-Trinitarian); wrote more on theology than physics. Johannes Kepler — saw planetary laws as discovering the Creator's geometry. Galileo — held that scripture and nature can't truly conflict. Robert Boyle — father of modern chemistry; funded lectures defending Christianity. Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell — both serious Christians (Faraday a Sandemanian). Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar, founder of genetics. Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang. Blaise Pascal — mathematician; the Pensées and the famous "wager."

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Historical founders of modern science who were theists These framed their science as reading "God's book of nature,". Isaac Newton — devout but heterodox (anti-Trinitarian); wrote more on theology than physics. Johannes Kepler — saw planetary laws as discovering the Creator's geometry. Galileo — held that scripture and nature can't truly conflict. Robert Boyle — father of modern chemistry; funded lectures defending Christianity. Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell — both serious Christians (Faraday a Sandemanian). Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar, founder of genetics. Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang. Blaise Pascal — mathematician; the Pensées and the famous "wager."