did you know that the greatest scientists were Christian>?

Question

Christains don't believe blindly as many assume... The world's greatest minds were Christian: Ex. Lord Kelvin, Louis Pasteur, Sir Isaac Newton, Beethoven, Bach,....Darwin,the list goes on...These people revolutionized thinking and art, they trusted the Bible!! Their works were inspired inorder to understand God more.

Answer 1

Yes...God the Father is the greatest scientist! Just look around!

You know what is really amusing...everyong that doesn't believe in the Bible...can't disprove it. They get frustrated and just stay it's not true...for those who have gone one step further to disprove...have come to know the Lord. GOD/Jesus ROCKS!!!

Grace to you and God Bless

Answer 2

First of all, Darwin was not a Christian, and he did not convert on his death bed. This is a false rumor which is being spread without evidence.

Secondly, these men were Christians, but this was in a period before many major scientific discoveries/advancements, such as the big bang theory, the law of conservation of mass and energy, the theory of evolution, the famous Miller-Urey experiments, etc. And besides, many of the greatest modern scientific minds were/are atheists, or at least highly skeptical of religion. These include Steven Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Thomas Alva Edison, Sigmund Freud, Francis Crick, James Watson, Richard Feynman, Albert Schweitzer, Ernst Mayr, Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Thomas Szasz. Also, it is a common myth that Albert Einstein was a Christian, but he was clearly an atheist:

This is from an interview with Einstein from the Princeton University Press:

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and have never denied this but expressed it quite clearly. If something is in me that can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

And from The New York Times:

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own--a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

And from The New York Times Magazine, in an article entitled "Religion and Science":

"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere...Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Answer 3

Don't get me wrong, OK, I love love LOVE Beethoven, but he was an *** and a womanizer, fornicator, whatever you want to call it.

He might have been a Christian, but that would only make him a Christian ***, albeit a brilliant one.

He was in his day, every little bit as controversial as Elvis or Jim Morrison have been in recent times.

Furthermore, what are you suggesting? Are you saying that I should follow the religion of a brilliant person simply because he or she is brilliant?

If so, then how about Steven Hawking, Einstein, Gandhi, Richard Dawkins, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sagan, Benjamin Franklin, Pres John Adams, Pres James Madison, Helen Keller, Dr. James Watson (discovered DNA), John Lennon, Walt Disney, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Charles Schultz, Vincent Van Gogh, Susan B Anthony, Robert Frost, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Pres William Taft, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Paul Sartre, HP Lovecraft, Bill Gates, Alfred Kinsey, Einstein, and the list goes on...

Based simply on brilliance and world influence, I would then have to be a Christian, atheist, deist, and agnostic all at the same time.

No thanks... I prefer to think for myself.

Einstein preferred to be called agnostic and often referred to himself as an atheist. He was certainly neither Jewish (other than by birth) or Christian...

http://home.fuse.net/keykrazy/Einstein.htm

Answer 4

Yes, many great thinkers were and are Christian. Unfortunately, a noisy minority of Christians, including some here on YA, make us more likely to think of Kent Hovind than Charles Darwin when Christianity is mentioned.

Einstein did not believe in religion or a personal God, but I think his reverence for creation makes him more a Deist than an atheist.

Answer 5

Perhaps some of them had abilities in the field of science or art, but when it comes to ethics, which are the things needed to make a life truly valuable, they were more than lacking. Anyone who goes by the morality of altruism, which tells them to sacrifice themselves for others, regardless of the others worth, is not a person to look up to as a whole or to admire in any but the least way. That said, I'd like you to know that just because they were mistaken in such an area, it does not void their accomplishments.
And one last note- trusting in the bible does not automatically make you an amazing or revolutionary person (you may not have meant that, but it kind of sounded like it).
Good luck in finding the truth. And way to ask a question worthy of consideration.

Answer 6

if darwin was a xtian they why and how did he feel the need to come up with evolution? if he trusted the bible, he wouldnt have thought of that idea. Newton, i dont recall being an xtian. i think your claim is false. lots os scientists are athiest, not all, but many prefer facts over faith.

Answer 7

I'm sorry, Beethoven was a scientist? that's news to me, i thought he was a musician. i guess i must think pretty narrow mindedly for thinking scientists aren't musicians. *shrugs* but why would i care what you think anyway, you just want to tell me about how I'm not going to church, and how you are, and how god still loves me, and how i should care more about it but don't, and how I'm going to hell. hell sounds alot more eventful than heaven...

its funny how every christian i know hates darwin. i had to do a biography on him in high school and walked into my church one evening reading the origin of species, and you know what? NOBODY LIKED IT!!! I WONDER WHY!!

now that you've made your point, that makes no sense to me, but whatever, are you happy yet? thats good. you should be.

Answer 8

Einstein was Jewish. He is arguably the greatest scientist ever.

Da Vinci was Christian...and gay.

I see your point, though. It is entirely possible to be a scientist, to seek answers to questions through experimentation, making hypotheses, etc., and still be deeply spiritual, even Christian.

Or course, like Galileo, you run the risk of being threatened with torture if you do so, but it is possible.

Answer 9

Did you know that it was a criminal offense, usually a death penalty offense, throughout Europe and the colonies, to deny Trinitarian doctrine up until the founding of the US?

Amazing that no one denied the Trinitarian doctrine, isn't it?

Of course, if he did, he was imprisoned or executed.

Newton privately renounced "Jesus is God" or Trinitarianism, and became a Unitarian. He concealed that fact to avoid prosecution. And, it was not revealed until long after his death.



Einstein was an atheist:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsPmQTMrE6_Q7PalFhXluVvsy6IX?qid=20060611144516AAdKeqJ

Answer 10

Here's a link detailing the testimonies of many Christians who have distinguished themselves in various scientific fields.

http://www.tektonics.org/scim/sciencemony.htm