Was there any famous scientist or biologist believe in a God?

Question

Many huh? Name one then

I know Miller, but he is somewhat different.

Answer 1

Many, why shouldn't there be? How is science or biology in any way incompatible with god?

Einstein
Gregor Mendel

Now you answer my question, how is science and/or biology incompatible with a belief in God?

Answer 2

Einstein believed in a pantheistic god. He spoke of "Spinoza's God." His best friend, Godel, was a theist. Godel is one of the most famous mathematician / logicians of the 20th century. Stephen Hawking is thought to be deist. Francis Collins, head of the genome project, is Evangelical Christian. Newton and Pasteur were Christian. John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist at Cambridge, is an Anglican priest. Alister McGrath could count as a scientist even though he is a practicing theologian. He has a Ph.D in biophysics from Oxford.

And the following is a list of earlier scientists who were Christian.

Roger Bacon
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Baptista van Helmont
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Carolus Linnaeus
Leonhard Euler
John Dalton
Michael Faraday
John Frederick William Herschel
Matthew Fontaine Maury
James Prescott Joule
Gregor Mendel
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
James Clerk Maxwell
George Washington Carver
Arthur Stanley Eddington

Answer 3

There are some today ,(i don`t know if they are famous ) that are putting a religious spin on science to promote Creationism.They do this by performing experiments ,similar to ice dating ,but using high contrast temperature conditions to invalidate the Ice ring dating system.
Their experiment are done in extreme temperature changes done in a short amount of time .These are not accurate because they don`t require sublimination of frozen water ,but uses the fast temperature changes to produce the rings .

Answer 4

Charles Darwin

Answer 5

Isacc Newton, records indicate that Newton studied alchemy and other hermtic/occult sciences which rely on the existence of a higher power then humanity , this would indicate he accept that there was a God or something of that nature

Answer 6

I don't know whether you'd consider him famous but Professor Robert Winston the biologist and fertility expert who spend so much time on our TVs is a practicing Jew.

Answer 7

Einstein

Answer 8

It used to be a capital crime in many European countries to deny the Holy Trinity. Regardless of what they might have believed they all paid lip service to God.

But, fair being fair, before recent developments in biology, physics and cosmology, there were so many unanswerable questions that "there must be a God" was acceptable even in scientific circles.

I don't hold it against them. They once believed in the Philosopher's Stone too.

Answer 9

In more recent times, there are Stephen Barr and Stanley Jaki, both physicists and both Catholics. Barr has written an hilarious critique of celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins.

Answer 10

If someone answers "Albert Einstein", I think I'll have to hurt someone.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein#Religious_views )

Note: "Naturalistic Pantheist" is more of an admiration of nature than anything else.

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Yes. Famous cell biologist Ken Miller is a Roman Catholic. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Miller )

Ken Miller is one of the scientists that testified for the evolutionary case over intelligent design at the Dover trial.