I don’t think that science and religion have to clash. I think that science should be a tool used to understand God’s gift of creation.
While there are many scientists today who have atheistic beliefs, if you look back through our history, you’ll find that there have actually been many scientists who BELIEVED in God.
Surprise, surprise. ๐
This is valuable information to share with children. It demonstrates for them the fact that science and faith don’t have to conflict. They can coincide peacefully together. They can play nicely in the sandbox of life.
If you agree with me on this, you may want to use this list of famous scientists who believed in God in your homeschool. You could incorporate it into your history and/or science lessons, add it to a unit study or even create a unit study from it. I would recommend that you do a bit of research about each of these men first, however, to get a clearer picture about their story and their faith. Then you can decide more easily how you can incorporate it into your homeschool lessons.
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Famous Scientists Who Believed in God
- Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1627)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Gottfried W. Leibnitz (1646-1716)
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907)
- Max Planck (1858-1947)
- Robert A. Millikan (1868โ1953)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874โ1937)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Arthur Compton (1892โ1962)
- Werner Heisenberg (1901โ1976)
- Francis Collins (1950-present)
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