Some, who may not know much about science, think quite wrongly that rational science has no place for God. Nothing could be further from the truth—as these quotes from the finest minds in history show:
The French biochemist, Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1882) arguably the father of modern medicine.
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
The Scottish scientist, James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) responsible for formulating the classical electromagnetic theory.
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) the English naturalist who gave scientific evidence for biological evolution.
I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God.
I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind, in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.
Arno Penzias and his colleague Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the ‘big bang.’ They were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1978. Penzias wrote:
If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God’s hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say ‘supernatural’) plan.
Christopher Isham (theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, and one of Britain’s leading quantum cosmologists)
Perhaps the best argument … that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas … being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth, that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.
Werner Heisenberg(1901 – 1976) was an eminent German quantum physicist.
In the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of thought (science and religion), for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.”
Colin Russell (1928 – 2013) was professor of history at Cambridge and the UK’s ‘Open University.’
The common belief that… the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility… is not only historically inaccurate, but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability.
Freeman Dyson (1923 – 2020, theoretical physicist and mathematician)
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.
If the truth of science has led these brilliant minds to God, where will you allow it to lead you?
