Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt -

In contrast to the misinformation deliberately passed on by atheistic professors to university students (and believed by most of the latter), many of the most brilliant scientists in history were as firm believers in the Bible, and in Christ as their personal Savior, as was Greenleaf. If space permitted, we could quote the Christian testimonies of Johann Kepler, the founder of astronomy; Robert Boyle, the father of modern chemistry; John Ray, the father of English natural history, and the greatest zoologist and botanist of his day; Sir Isaac Newton, who 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; Carolus Linnaeus, father of biological taxonomy; Michael Faraday, one of the greatest physicists of all time, who developed foundational concepts in electricity and magnetism; Charles Babbage, founder of computer science, who developed information storage and retrieval systems; John Dalton, the father of atomic theory, which revolutionized chemistry; Gregory Mendel, the father of genetics; Louis Pasteur, the father of bacteriology, who established the germ theory of disease; Lord Kelvin, one of the greatest physicists of all time, the first to provide a precise statement of the first and second laws of thermodynamics—and a host of other great scientists, ancient and modern.

By lifelong examination of the physical universe, from the innermost depths of the atom to the farthest reaches of space, such men arrived at the same faith in Christ as did Greenleaf. To move to more recent times, Werner Von Braun, the father of space science, 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.”