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The Qur'an Leads the Way to Science: Other Believing Scientists Who Lived in the Past

Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Intelligent Design, That Is, Creation
  3. Religion Encourages Science
  4. Religion Ensures That Science Is Rightly Guided
  5. Religion and Science Are Always in Agreement
  6. The Scientific Miracles of the Qur'an
  7. Scientists Who Believed
  8. Believing Scientists Who Lived in the Past
  9. Other Believing Scientists Who Lived in the Past
  10. Believing Scientists of Our Time
  11. Muslim Scientists
  12. Other Believing Scientists of Our Time
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes

Each of the scientists who believed in Creation whose names we list in this section either laid the foundations of a field of science or achieved pioneering accomplishments in some field of science, rendering important services to science in the past. The existence of these scientists is clear proof that belief in Creation is not contrary to science, but that, on the contrary, religion gives impetus to science.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
1452–1519
Art, engineering, architecture
Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola
1494–1555
Mineralogy
John Wilkins
1614–1672
Astronomy and mechanics
Walter Charleton
Walter Charleton
1619–1707
Medicine
Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow
1630–1677
Mathematics
Nicolas Steno
Nicolas Steno
1631–1686
Stratigraphy
Thomas Burnet
Thomas Burnet
1635–1715
Geology
Increase Mather
Increase Mather
1639–1723
Astronomy
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew
1641–1712
Medicine
William Whiston
William Whiston
1667–1752
Physics, geology
John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson
1674–1737
Philosophy
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
1703–1758
Physics, meteorology
Richard Kirwan
Richard Kirwan
1733–1812
Mineralogy
Timothy Dwight
Timothy Dwight
1752–1817
Education
James Parkinson
1755–1824
Medicine
William Kirby
William Kirby
1759–1850
Entomology (the study of insects)
Benjamin Barton
Benjamin Barton
1766–1815
Botany, zoology
John Dalton
John Dalton
1766–1844
Chemistry, founder of modern atomic theory
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
1769–1832
Founder of palaeontology, anatomy
Charles Bell
Charles Bell
1774–1842
Anatomy
John Kidd
John Kidd
1775–1851
Chemistry
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777–1855
Analysis, geometry, geology, magnetism, astronomy
Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman
1779–1864
Mineralogy
Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget
1779–1869
Physiology
William Buckland
William Buckland
1784–1856
Geology
William Prout
William Prout
1785–1850
Chemistry
Edward Hitchcock
Edward Hitchcock
1793–1864
Geology
William Whewell
William Whewell
1794–1866
Astronomy and physics
Richard Owen
Richard Owen
1804–1892
Zoology, palaeontology
Matthew Maury
Matthew Maury
1806–1873
Oceanography and hydrology
Henry Rogers
Henry Rogers
1808–1866
Geology
James Glaisher
1809–1903
Meteorology
Philip H. Gosse
Philip H. Gosse
1810–1888
Ornithology, zoology
Henry Rawlinson
Henry Rawlinson
1810–1895
Archaeology
James Dana
James Dana
1813–1895
Geology
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Joseph Henry Gilbert
1817–1901
Agricultural chemistry
Thomas Anderson
Thomas Anderson
1819–1874
Chemistry
Charles P. Smyth
1819–1900
Astronomy
John W. Dawson
John W. Dawson
1820–1899
Geology
Henri Fabre
Henri Fabre
1823–1915
Entomology
Bernhard Riemann
1826–1866
Geometry
Joseph Lister
1827–1912
Surgery
Balfour Stewart
Balfour Stewart
1828–1887
Ionospheric electricity
P. G. Tait
1831–1901
Physics, mathematics
John Bell Pettigrew
John Bell Pettigrew
1834–1908
Anatomy, physiology
Edward William Morley
Edward William Morley
1838–1923
Physics, chemistry
William Abney
William Abney
1843–1920
Astronomy
Alexander MacAlister
Alexander MacAlister
1844–1919
Anatomy
A. H. Sayce
A. H. Sayce
1845–1933
Archaeology
George Romanes
George Romanes
1848–1894
Biology and physiology
John Ambrose Fleming
John Ambrose Fleming
1849–1945
Electronics
William Mitchell Ramsay
1851–1939
Archaeology
William Ramsay
William Ramsay
1852–1916
Chemistry
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
1856–1943
Electrical engineering, physics
Howard A. Kelly
Howard A. Kelly
1858–1943
Gynaecology
Douglas Dewar
1875–1957
Ornithology (the study of birds)
Paul Lemoine
Paul Lemoine
1878–1940
Geology
Charles Stine
1882–1954
Organic chemistry
A. Rendle Short
1885–1955
Medicine
L. Merson Davies
1890–1960
Geology, palaeontology
Cecil P. G. Wakeley
Cecil P. G. Wakeley
1892–1979
Medicine