[f.Christian]

"Why does this matter?"

"Because one of the charges against Mel Gibson and The Passion is that reliance upon the Gospels is typical Christian hillbilly mentality - and yet this is the ... precise belief structure (( link )) --- that created the vast majority of intellectual understanding of the modern world. Fidelity to truth, confidence that our truth is the shadowy outline of a loving Creator, and unprecedented genius which flowed directly from that confidence is the surest evidence serious Christians cannot be dismissed by serious critics as hayseeds or kooks."

[DittoJed2]

How different would the world have been if Jesus never would have been born. Creationists such as the following may never have contributed to our base of knowledge as they have, and science would not have been advanced as it has.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Scientific method

Johann Kepler (1571–1630) Scientific astronomy

Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680) Inventor

John Wilkins (1614–1672)

Walter Charleton (1619–1707) President of the Royal College of Physicians

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) Hydrostatics; Barometer

Sir William Petty (1623 –1687) Statistics; Scientific economics

Robert Boyle (1627–1691) Chemistry; Gas dynamics

John Ray (1627–1705) Natural history

Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) Professor of Mathematics

Nicolas Steno (1631–1686) Stratigraphy

Thomas Burnet (1635–1715) Geology

Increase Mather (1639–1723) Astronomy

Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) Medical Doctor, Botany

Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Dynamics; Calculus; Gravitation law; Reflecting telescope

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) Mathematician

John Flamsteed (1646–1719) Greenwich Observatory Founder; Astronomy

William Derham (1657–1735) Ecology

Cotton Mather (1662–1727) Physician

John Harris (1666–1719) Mathematician

John Woodward (1665–1728) Paleontology

William Whiston (1667–1752) Physics, Geology

John Hutchinson (1674–1737) Paleontology

Johathan Edwards (1703–1758) Physics, Meteorology

Carolus Linneaus (1707–1778) Taxonomy; Biological classification system

Jean Deluc (1727–1817) Geology

Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) Mineralogy

William Herschel (1738–1822) Galactic astronomy; Uranus

James Parkinson (1755–1824) Physician

John Dalton (1766–1844) Atomic theory; Gas law John Kidd, M.D. (1775–1851) Chemical synthetics

Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) Educator

William Kirby (1759–1850) Entomologist

Jedidian Horse (1761–1826) Geographer

Benjamin Barton (1766–1815) Botanist; Zoologist

John Dalton (1766–1844) Father of the Modern Atomic Theory; Chemistry

Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) Comparative anatomy, paleontology

Samuel Miller (1770–1840) Clergy

Charles Bell (1774–1842) Anatomist

John Kidd (1775–1851) Chemistry

Humphrey Davy (1778–1829) Thermokinetics; Safety lamp

Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864) Mineralogist

Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) Physician; Physiologist

Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Professor

David Brewster (1781–1868) Optical mineralogy, Kaleidoscope

William Buckland (1784–1856) Geologist

William Prout (1785–1850) Food chemistry (

Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) Geology (

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) Electro magnetics; Field theory, Generator

Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872) Telegraph

Charles Babbage (1792–1871) Operations research; Computer science; Ophthalmoscope

John Herschel (1792–1871) Astronomy

Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864) Geology

William Whewell (1794–1866) Anemometer

Joseph Henry (1797–1878) Electric motor; Galvanometer

Richard Owen (1804–1892) Zoology; Paleontology

Matthew Maury (1806–1873) Oceanography, Hydrography

Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) Glaciology, Ichthyology

Henry Rogers (1808–1866) Geology

John Murray (1808–1892) Publisher

James Glaisher (1809–1903) Meteorology

Philip H. Gosse (1810–1888) Ornithologist; Zoology

Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810–1895) Archeologist

James Simpson (1811–1870) Gynecology, Anesthesiology

James Dana (1813–1895) Geology

Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817–1901) Agricultural Chemist

James Joule (1818–1889) Thermodynamics

Thomas Anderson (1819–1874) Chemist

Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900) Astronomy

George Stokes (1819–1903) Fluid Mechanics

John William Dawson (1820–1899) Geology

Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902) Pathology

Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) Genetics

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) Bacteriology, Biochemistry; Sterilization; Immunization

Henri Fabre (1823–1915) Entomology of living insects

William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) Energetics; Absolute temperatures; Atlantic cable

William Huggins (1824–1910) Astral spectrometry

Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) Non-Euclidean geometries

Joseph Lister (1827–1912) Antiseptic surgery

Balfour Stewart (1828–1887) Ionospheric electricity

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

Electrodynamics; Statistical thermodynamics P.G. Tait (1831–1901) Vector analysis

John Bell Pettigrew (1834–1908) Anatomist; Physiologist

John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919) Similitude; Model Analysis; Inert Gases

Sir William Abney (1843–1920) Astronomy

Alexander MacAlister (1844–1919) Anatomy

A.H. Sayce (1845–1933) Archeologist

George Romanes (1848–1894) Biology; Physiology

John Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945) Electronics; Electron tube; Thermionic valve

Dr Clifford Burdick, Geologist

George Washington Carver (1864–1943) Inventor

L. Merson Davies (1890–1960) Geology; Paleontology

Douglas Dewar (1875–1957) Ornithologist

Howard A. Kelly (1858–1943) Gynecology

Paul Lemoine (1878–1940) Geology

Dr Frank Marsh, Biology

Dr John Mann, Agriculturist, biological control pioneer

Edward H. Maunder (1851–1928) Astronomy

William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Archeologist

William Ramsay (1852–1916) Isotopic chemistry, Element transmutation

Charles Stine (1882–1954) Organic Chemist

A. Rendle-Short (1885–1955) Surgeon

Sir Cecil P. G. Wakeley (1892–1979) Surgeon

Dr Larry Butler, Biochemist

Prof. Verna Wright, Rheumatologist (deceased 1997)

Arthur E. Wilder-Smith (1915–1995) Three science doctorates; a creation science pioneer