Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny—Theism, the Foundation of Science

Among these brilliant theist thinkers were the following: Louis Aggasiz, founder of glacial science; Sir Francis Bacon, who established the scientific method of inquiry based on experimentation and inductive reasoning; Sir Charles Bell, first to extensively map the brain and nervous system; Robert Boyle, founder of “Boyle’s Law” for gasses; Nicolas Copernicus, who set forth the first mathematically based system of planets orbiting the sun; Georges Cuvier, founder of comparative anatomy; John Dalton, father of modern atomic theory; René Descartes, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, called the father of modern philosophy; Jean Henri Fabre, chief founder of modern entomology; Michael Faraday, one of the greatest scientists of the nineteenth century, who revolutionized physics with his work on electricity and magnetism; James Joule, discoverer of the first law of thermodynamics; William Thomson Kelvin, among the first to clearly state the second law of thermodynamics; Johannes Kepler, mathematician, astronomer, discoverer of the laws of planetary motion; James Clerk Maxwell, formulator of the electromagnetic theory of light; Gregor Mendel, father of genetics; Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of the reflecting telescope, discoverer of the Law of Gravity,) and generally regarded as the most original and influential thinker in the history of science; Blaise Pascal, major contributor to probability studies and hydrostatics; Louis Pasteur, formulator of the germ theory—and too many others to name.