Great Scientific Discoveries by Godly Men: By Pastor Brad Abley

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an Italian mathematician, also demonstrated mathematically that universal truths, or the laws of nature, governed the universe.  He reasoned that since God is one, the universe must have unity.  Thus, what was real was that which could be measured.  His discoveries led to the inventions of modern machinery.

- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), a very devout christian and British mathematics professor at Cambridge University in England, then came up with an even greater discovery: The universal law of gravity, published in one of the greatest books ever written: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), or Principia.  The Father of modern science, his Principia is still the foundation of modern scientific thought.  He also developed the Biomial Theory, Calculus and he invented the first successful reflecting telescope.  His discoveries led to the development of modern physics.

-Of the universe, Newton wrote,
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.  And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel, must be subject to the dominion of the One...This Being governs all things...as Lord over all.  The Supreme God is Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect...He endures forever and is everywhere present.

-In 1641, Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher (and another devout Christian), invented the predecessor to the modern calculator, and English scientist Robert Boyle formulated the laws of gases (1662), earning him the title, "Father of Modern Chemistry."

The above geniuses - all Christians - praised God for the reason He had give them to discover what only He could reveal.