Creation scientists and other specialists of interest
Introduction and disclaimer
Many historians (of many different religious persuasions—including atheistic) have shown that modern science started to flourish only in largely Christian Europe (see The biblical roots of modern science). These historians point out that the basis of modern science depends on the assumption that the universe was made by a rational creator (see Why does science work at all?). An orderly universe makes perfect sense only if it were made by an orderly Creator. But if there is no creator, or if Zeus and his gang were in charge, why should there be any order at all? So, not only is a strong Christian belief not an obstacle to science, such a belief was its very foundation. (See also a refutation of the argument Newton was a creationist only because there was no alternative?)
However, after the rise of old-age beliefs thanks to James Hutton and Charles Lyell, some scientists caved in and ‘re-interpreted’ the Bible to fit them. For example, some claimed that the days in Genesis 1 were really ages, and that Noah’s Flood was one of many catastrophes. For proof that such ‘re-interpretations’ are fallacious, see Creation Compromises and Noah’s Flood Covered the Whole Earth.
They may have meant well, but their faulty model was an easy target for Darwin. For example, Darwin pointed out that the fashionable theory taught by Lyell, of fixity of species—that each species had been independently created in their current location—made little sense of his observations that island species were often similar to those of the nearest continent. But his observations fit perfectly with the true biblical view that there was a global Flood, and that animals migrated from Ararat to the islands via the neighbouring mainland.
This should be a lesson for those today who teach that Christians should compromise the plain meaning of the Bible to fit with ‘science’. Aside from placing fallible human opinion as an authority above the infallible Word of God, it just doesn’t work and paves the way for more departure from Scripture.
Some scientists alive today* who accept the biblical account of creation
Note: Individuals on this list possess an earned doctorate in a field of science, or (for the rare person lacking a PhD) high level research achievements or academic status.
- Dr Paul Ackerman, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wichita State University.
- Dr E. Theo Agard, Medical Physics
- Dr James Allan, Genetics
- Dr John Ashton, Chemistry, Food technology
- Dr Steve Austin, Geology
- Dr S.E. Aw(胡瑞永; Pinyin Hú Ruìyǒng,) Biochemistry
- Dr Geoff Barnard, Immunology
- Dr Don Batten, Plant physiology
- Dr Donald Baumann, Solid State Physics, Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Cedarville University
- Dr John Baumgardner, Electrical Engineering, Space Physicist, Geophysicist, expert in supercomputer modeling of plate tectonics
- Dr Élizabeth Beauchesne Biomedical Sciences.
- Dr Jerry Bergman, Psychology, Human Biology/Physiology
- Dr Kimberly Berrine, Microbiology & Immunology
- Prof. Vladimir Betina, Microbiology, Biochemistry & Biology
- Dr Markus Blietz, Astrophysicist
- Dr Raymond G. Bohlin, Biology
- Dr Andrew Bosanquet, Biology, Microbiology
- Dr Edward A. Boudreaux, Theoretical Chemistry
- Dr David Boylan, Chemical Engineering
- Dr Bernard Brandstater, Anesthesiology
- Prof. Stuart Burgess, Engineering and Biomimetics, Professor of Design & Nature, Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol (UK)
- Prof. Linn E. Carothers, Associate Professor of Statistics
- Dr Ben Carson, Professor and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. He has 51 honorary doctorates, including from Yale and Columbia Universities.
- Dr Robert W. Carter, Marine Biology
- Prof. Sung-Do Cha, Physics
- Dr Eugene F. Chaffin, Professor of Physics
- Dr Ainsley Chalmers, Biochemist, medical researcher
- Dr Choong-Kuk Chang, Genetic Engineering
- Prof. Jeun-Sik Chang, Aeronautical Engineering
- Dr Xidong Chen, Solid State Physics, Assistant Professor of Physics, Cedarville University
- Dr Donald Chittick, Physical Chemistry
- Prof. Chung-Il Cho, Biology Education
- Dr John M. Cimbala, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr Harold Coffin, Paleontology
- Dr Bob Compton, DVM, PhD
- Dr Matthew Cserhati, Molecular Biology
- Dr Ken Cumming, Biology
- Dr Malcolm Cutchins, Aerospace Engineering
- Dr Lionel Dahmer, Analytical Chemistry
- Dr Chris Darnbrough, Biochemistry
- Dr Nancy M. Darrall, Botany
- Dr Bryan Dawson, Mathematics
- Dr Douglas Dean, Biological Chemistry
- Prof. Stephen W. Deckard, Assistant Professor of Education
- Dr David A. DeWitt, Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience
- Dr Don DeYoung, Astronomy, atmospheric physics
- Dr Geoff Downes, Plant Physiology
- Dr Ted Driggers, Operations research
- Robert H. Eckel, Medical Research (more than 80 research papers)
- Dr André Eggen, Genetics
- Dr Leroy Eimers, Atmospheric Science, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Cedarville University
- Dr Dudley Eirich, Molecular biologist
- Prof. Dennis L. Englin, Professor of Geophysics
- Prof. Danny Faulkner, Astronomy
- Dr Dennis Flentge, Physical Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Science and Mathematics, Cedarville University
- Prof. Carl B. Fliermans, Professor of Biology
- Prof. Dwain L. Ford, Organic Chemistry
- Prof. Robert H. Franks, Associate Professor of Biology
- Dr Kenneth W. Funk, Organic Chemistry; biologically active peptide synthesis.
- Dr Alan Galbraith, Watershed Science
- Dr Roger G. Gallop, P.G., Geology
- Dr Robert Gentry, Physics
- Dr Maciej Giertych, Genetics
- Dr Werner Gitt, Information Science
- Dr Steven Gollmer, Atmospheric Science, Professor of Physics, Cedarville University
- Dr D.B. Gower, Biochemistry
- Dr Stephen Grocott, Industrial Chemistry
- Dr Donald Hamann, Food Science
- Dr Barry Harker, Philosophy
- Dr Charles W. Harrison, Applied Physics, Electromagnetics
- Dr John Hartnett, Physics and Cosmology
- Dr Mark Harwood, Satellite Communications
- Dr Joe Havel, Botanist, Silviculture, Ecophysiology
- Dr George Hawke, Environmental Science
- Dr Steven Hayes, Nuclear Science
- Dr Margaret Helder, Science Editor, Botany
- Dr Larry Helmick, Organic Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, Cedarville University
- Dr Harold R. Henry, Engineering
- Dr Dewey Hodges, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
- Dr Joseph Henson, Entomology
- Dr Jonathan Henry, Chemical Engineering, Astronomy
- Dr Robert A. Herrmann, Professor of Mathematics, US Naval Academy
- Dr Kelly Hollowell, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
- Dr Ed Holroyd, III, Atmospheric Science
- Dr Bob Hosken, Biochemistry
- Dr George F. Howe, Botany
- Dr Neil Huber, Physical Anthropology
- Dr Russell Humphreys, Physics
- Dr James A. Huggins, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology
- Dr G. Charles Jackson, Science Education
- Dr Evan Jamieson, Hydrometallurgy
- Prof. George T. Javor, Biochemistry
- Dr Pierre Jerlström, Molecular Biology
- Dr Arthur Jones, Biology
- Dr Raymond Jones, Agricultural Science
- Dr Valery Karpounin, Mathematical Sciences, Logic, Formal Logic
- Dr Dean Kenyon, Biology
- Prof. Gi-Tai Kim, Biology
- Prof. Harriet Kim, Biochemistry
- Prof. Jong-Bai Kim, Biochemistry
- Prof. Jung-Han Kim, Biochemistry
- Prof. Jung-Wook Kim, Environmental Science
- Prof. Kyoung-Rai Kim, Analytical Chemistry
- Prof. Kyoung-Tai Kim, Genetic Engineering
- Prof. Young-Gil Kim, Materials Science
- Prof. Young In Kim, Engineering
- Dr David King, Astronomy.
- Dr John W. Klotz, Biology
- Dr Vladimir F. Kondalenko, Cytology/Cell Pathology
- Dr Felix Konotey-Ahulu, Physician, leading expert on sickle-cell anemia
- Dr Leonid Korochkin, M.D., Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology
- Dr John K.G. Kramer, Biochemistry
- Dr Johan Kruger, Zoology
- Dr Wolfgang Kuhn, biology researcher and lecturer
- Dr Heather Kuruvilla, Plant Physiology, Senior Professor of Biology, Cedarville University
- Prof. Jin-Hyouk Kwon, Physics
- Prof. Myung-Sang Kwon, Immunology
- Dr Barry Lawrence, Nuclear Engineering
- Dr Matti Leisola, Biochemistry (esp. of enzymes), D.Sc. in biotechnology, Dean, Faculty of Chemical and Materials Sciences, Aalta University, Finland
- Dr John G. Leslie, biochemistry, molecular biology, medicine, biblical archaeology
- Prof. Lane P. Lester, Biology, Genetics
- Dr Jean Lightner, Agriculture, Veterinary science
- Dr Peter Line, Neuroscience
- Dr Jason Lisle, Astrophysics
- Dr Raúl E López, Meteorology
- Dr Alan Love, Chemistry
- Dr Gloria Luciani-Torres, Molecular Oncology Researcher (Cancer Biology)
- Dr Heinz Lycklama, Nuclear physics and Information Technology
- Dr Ian Macreadie, Molecular Biology and Microbiology
- Dr John Marcus, Molecular Biology
- Dr George Marshall, Opthalmology researcher
- Dr James Mason, Nuclear physics
- Dr Ralph Matthews, Radiation Chemistry
- Dr Mark McClain, Inorganic Chemistry, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Cedarville University
- Dr John McEwan, Organic Chemistry
- Prof. Andy McIntosh, Combustion theory, aerodynamics
- Dr David Menton, Anatomy
- Dr Angela Meyer, Plant Physiology
- Dr John Meyer, Physiology
- Dr Victor Meyer, Entomology, environmental science
- Dr Douglas Miller, Professor of Chemistry, Cedarville University
- Dr Robert T. Mitchell, Internal Medicine (specialist)
- Dr Colin W. Mitchell, Geography
- Dr Gina Mohammed, Plant physiology
- Dr John N. Moore, Science Education
- Dr John D. Morris, Geology
- Dr Len Morris, Physiology
- Dr Graeme Mortimer, Geology
- Dr Stanley A. Mumma, Architectural Engineering
- Dr Ron Neller, fluvial geomorphology
- Prof. Hee-Choon No, Nuclear Engineering
- Dr Eric Norman, Biomedical science
- Dr David Oderberg, Philosophy
- Professor Douglas Oliver, Professor of Biology
- Prof. John Oller, Linguistics
- Prof. Chris D. Osborne, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Dr Charles Pallaghy, Botany
- Dr Gary E. Parker, Biology, Cognate in Geology (Paleontology)
- Dr Terry Phipps, Professor of Biology, Cedarville University
- Dr Jules H. Poirier, Aeronautics, Electronics
- Dr Georgia Purdom, Molecular Genetics
- Dr Graeme Quick, Engineering, former Principle Research Scientist with CSIRO (Australia)
- Dr Dan Reynolds, Organic Chemistry
- Dr Chad Rodekohr, Engineering, Physics
- Dr Jung-Goo Roe, Biology
- Dr David Rodda, PhD, Population Genetics
- Dr David Rosevear, Chemistry
- Dr Marcus Ross, Paleontology
- Dr Ariel A. Roth, Biology
- Dr Ronald G. Samec, Astronomy
- Dr John Sanford, Plant science / genetics
- Dr Jonathan D. Sarfati, Physical chemistry / spectroscopy
- Dr Joachim Scheven Paleontology
- Dr Ian Scott, Education
- Dr Saami Shaibani, Forensic Physics
- Dr Young-Gi Shim, Chemistry
- Prof. Hyun-Kil Shin, Food Science
- Dr Mikhail Shulgin, Physics
- Dr Emil Silvestru, Geology/karstology
- Dr Roger Simpson, Engineering
- Dr Horace D. (‘Skip’) Skipper, Professor Emeritus Soil microbiology, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences, Clemson University, SC, USA
- Dr E. Norbert Smith, Zoology
- Dr Andrew Snelling, Geology
- Prof. Man-Suk Song, Computer Science
- Dr Timothy G. Standish, Biology
- Prof. James Stark, Assistant Professor of Science Education
- Prof. Brian Stone, Engineer
- Dr Esther Su (苏绯云,Pinyin Sū Fēiyún), Biochemistry
- Dr Dennis Sullivan, Biology, surgery, chemistry, Professor of Biology, Cedarville University
- Dr Greg Tate, Plant Pathology
- Dr Stephen Taylor, Electrical Engineering
- Dr Larry Thaete, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathobiology
- Dr Ker C. Thomson, Geophysics
- Dr Michael Todhunter, Forest Genetics
- Dr Lyudmila Tonkonog, Chemistry/Biochemistry
- Dr S.H. ‘Wally’ Tow (Tow Siang Hwa), retired chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Singapore (d. 8 March 2019).
- Dr Royal Truman, Organic Chemistry
- Dr Brandon van der Ventel, Nuclear scientist
- Dr Gerald Van Dyke, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus in Botany, North Carolina State University
- Dr Larry Vardiman, Atmospheric Science
- Prof. Walter Veith, Zoology
- Dr Joachim Vetter, Biology
- Dr Erich Vorpagel, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology; computational protein function.
- Dr Tas Walker, Mechanical Engineering and Geology
- Dr Jeremy Walter, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr Keith Wanser, Physics
- Dr Noel Weeks, Ancient Near-East History (also has B.Sc. in Zoology)
- Dr Carl Werner, Biologist
- Dr A.J. Monty White, Chemistry/Gas Kinetics
- Dr John Whitmore, Geology/Paleontology
- Dr Kurt Wise, Paleontology
- Dr Bryant Wood, Archaeology
- Prof. Seoung-Hoon Yang, Physics
- Dr Thomas (Tong Y.) Yi, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
- Dr Ick-Dong Yoo, Genetics
- Dr Sung-Hee Yoon, Biology
- Dr Patrick Young, Chemistry and Materials Science
- Prof. Keun Bae Yu, Geography
- Dr Daiqing Yuan, Theoretical Physics
- Dr Henry Zuill, Biology
* Or recently deceased.
Discrimination against creation scientists (and ID advocates)
- The portrayal of creationists by their evolutionist detractors
- Contemporary suppression of the theistic worldview
- Creationism, Science and Peer Review
- Do creation scientists publish in secular journals?
- Do creationists publish in notable refereed journals?
- Peer pressure and truth
- Science … a reality check
- Denied the prize (Paulescu and insulin)
- Scientific American refuses to hire creationist (Forrest Mims III)
- Revolutionary atmospheric invention by victim of anti-creationist discrimination (Forrest Mims III)
- The not-so-Nobel decision (Damadian and MRI)
- Dr Damadian’s vital contribution to MRI: Nobel prize controversy returns
- Darwinian thought police strike again (Dr Guillermo Gonzalez)
- The dark side of ‘evolutionary politics’: University prof. pressured to resign
- The Smithsonian/Sternberg controversy
- Chemists in stew about intelligent design
- The tyranny of ‘tolerance’
- Expelled: New movie exposes persecution of anti-Darwinists
- Cracking the wall in science: Carl Wieland chats with Mark Mathis, producer of the movie, Expelled
- Not too old to be Expelled
- Reiss resigns as Royal Society stifles debate on evolution
- Heresy in Israel! Chief education scientist dismissed for denying evolution and global warming
- My Experiences as a creationist student in zoology departments of several universities
Scientists of the past who believed in a Creator
Note: These scientists are sorted by birth year.
* As far as we know, the scientists of the past listed on these pages believed in a literal Genesis unless otherwise stated. The ones who did not are nevertheless included in the list below, because of their general belief in the creator God of the Bible and opposition to evolution. But because the idea that the earth is ‘millions of years’ old has been disastrous in the long run, no present day ‘long-agers’ are included intentionally, because they should know better.
Medieval
The Medieval period or Middle Ages has been dismissed as the ‘Dark Ages’ by the historically ignorant. In reality, this period saw the birth of modern experimental science. Logical thought patterns of the medieval Scholastic philosophers of the Church led to challenges to the received wisdom about nature from Aristotelian dogma. Universities sprang up over Europe, where learning was passed on and debate encouraged. Extensive inventiveness and mechanical ingenuity developed in the monasteries, where optics was researched and spectacles invented. There was an industrial revolution thanks to the development of water and wind power and superior agriculture that supported a population boom. The blast furnace and mechanical clock began in this period. The great Gothic cathedrals were works of architectural genius, with innovations such as the flying buttress to support the walls from outside, enabling a huge spacious interior were worshippers were bathed in light and colour through intricate stained glass windows. In astronomy, medieval scholars knew perfectly well that the earth was a globe and a tiny speck compared to the vastness of the universe. Many scientists of this period were clergymen in good standing. This period also saw the basic ideas of the geokinetic universe and thought-challenges to absolute geocentrism. The cathedrals were also used as gigantic solar observatories, called meridiane, and the research which the Church supported later lent support to the developing Keplerian astronomy.
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (Boethius, c. 480 – c. 525) explained sound as a wave motion, taught that the earth was a mere point compared to the vastness of space
- John Philoponus (c. 490 – c. 570) Physics; he showed that heavy objects fall at almost the same speed as light objects, long before Galileo. Disproved Aristotle’s claim that a projectile is pushed by the medium in which it travels, rather, Philoponus proved that the medium hinders motion
- Bede, ‘The Venerable’ (672/673 – 26 May 735) Astronomy; Bede showed that tides are mainly caused by the moon, and declared that the earth was a “globe … not circular like a shield but rather like a ball”
- Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253) Astronomy, Optics
- Johannes de Sacrobosco (c. 1195 – c. 1256) Astronomy: wrote astronomy textbook De sphaera mundi, which defended a spherical earth in a number of different ways that are still up-to-date (hence the title); pointed out that the moon has no light of its own but reflects sunlight, which is why it was dark during a lunar eclipse where the earth blocks the sun’s light; and taught that the earth was smaller than the smallest star we see, and was a mere speck compared to the distance to the stars
- Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280) Biology, Mineralogy, Logic
- Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1292) Optics
- John Peckham (c. 1230 – 1292, Archbishop of Canterbury) Optics, Astronomy
- Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290 – 26 August 1349) Physics, Logic, Mathematics; one of the Oxford Calculators who proved the Mean Speed Theorem long before Galileo, and his solution to semantic paradoxes influenced Buridan
- Jean (John) Buridan (c. 1300 – after 1358) Physics, Astronomy, Logic; his concept of impetus was a forerunner of Galileo’s concept of inertia and Newton’s First Law of Motion, he proposed geokinetic ideas as a working hypothesis, and his work on solving semantic paradoxes influenced modern logicians A.N. Prior (1914–1969) and G.E. Hughes (1919–1994)
- John of Dumbleton (ca.1310 – ca. 1349) Physics, Natural Philosophy, Logic; one of the Oxford Calculators who proved the Mean Speed Theorem long before Galileo
- William of Heytesbury (c. 1313–1372/1373) Physics, Mathematics; one of the Oxford Calculators who proved the Mean Speed Theorem long before Galileo
- Richard Swineshead (fl. c. 1340–1354) Mathematics, Logic, Natural Philosophy; one of the Oxford Calculators who proved the Mean Speed Theorem long before Galileo
- Nicole Oresme (c. 1320 – c. 1382, bishop) Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics; proposed geokinetic ideas as a working hypothesis and answered most objections that would be raised against Galileo, and represented motion with graphs long before Descartes
- Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464, Cardinal) Astronomy, Mathematics; proposed geokinetic ideas, anticipated the idea of reference frames by Galileo and Einstein
Renaissance to Newton
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543, Canon) Astronomy, Mathematics
- Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) Cartography; inventor of the Mercator projection, the standard map for navigation because a course at a constant bearing corresponds to a straight line. He wrote “When I saw that Moses’ account of the world’s origin was in many ways different from that of Aristotle and the other philosophers, I began to doubt their teaching and set about studying nature’s secrets instead.” He was in prison for 7 months suspected of being a Lutheran and his great life’s work, his atlas, contained a thesis on the first chapter of Genesis where he defended God’s word against the philosophers. (Thanks to Catherine Olaussen, Norway)
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Scientific method, motivated by trying to regain the encyclopedic knowledge he believed that Adam possessed before the Fall. However, see also Culture Wars:
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) (WOH) Physics, astronomy (see also The Galileo ‘twist’, The Galileo affair: history or heroic hagiography?, and Galileo Quadricentennial: Myth vs fact)
- Johann Kepler (1571–1630) (WOH) Scientific astronomy
- Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680) Inventor, ‘The Master of a Hundred Arts’, defended reality of Noah’s Ark and variation from the animals kinds after it landed
- John Wilkins (1614–1672), founder of the metric system and the first secretary of the Royal Society, argued that all the varieties of cattle today, including the American ‘buffalo’ or bison, would have arisen from two (or probably seven) cattle ancestors on the Ark
- Walter Charleton (1619–1707) President of the Royal College of Physicians
- Blaise Pascal and article from Creation magazine (1623–1662) Hydrostatics; barometer
- Sir William Petty (1623 –1687) Statistics; scientific economics
- Robert Boyle (1627–1691) (WOH) Chemistry; gas dynamics
- John Ray (1627–1705) Natural history
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) Professor of mathematics
- Nicolaus Steno (né Niels Stensen, 1631–1686) Stratigraphy; see also Geological pioneer was a biblical creationist.
- Thomas Burnet (1635–1715) Geology
- Increase Mather (1639–1723) Astronomy
- Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) Medical doctor, botany
The age of Newton
- Isaac Newton (1642–1727) (WOH) Dynamics; Co-inventor of calculus; Gravitation law; Law of Cooling, Reflecting telescope; Spectrum of light (wrote more about the Bible than science, and emphatically affirmed a Creator. Some have accused him of Arianism, but it’s likely he held to a heterodox form of the Trinity—See Pfizenmaier, T.C., Was Isaac Newton an Arian? Journal of the History of Ideas 68(1):57–80, 1997)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) Mathematics, Co-inventor of calculus
- 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
- Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Physics, Meteorology, Pathology
- Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) Taxonomy; biological classification system
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) Mathematics, Physics, Optics, Astronomy, Structural engineering
- Jean Deluc (1727–1817) Geology
- Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) Mineralogy
- William Herschel (1738–1822) Galactic astronomy; Uranus (probably believed in an old-earth)
- James Parkinson (1755–1824) Physician (old-earth compromiser*)
Just before Darwin
- The 19th Century Scriptural Geologists, by Dr Terry Mortenson
- Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) Educator
- William Kirby (1759–1850) Entomologist
- Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826) Geographer
- Benjamin Barton (1766–1815) Botanist; Zoologist
- John Dalton (1766–1844) Father of modern atomic theory; chemistry
- Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) Comparative anatomy, paleontology (old-earth compromiser*)
- Samuel Miller (1770–1840) Clergy
- Charles Bell (1774–1842) Anatomist
- John Kidd (1775–1851) Chemistry
- George Young (1777–1848) Geology
- Humphrey Davy (1778–1829) Thermokinetics; safety lamp
- Andrew Ure (1778–1857) Chemistry
- Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864) Mineralogist (old-earth compromiser*)
- Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) Physician; physiologist
- Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Professor (old-earth compromiser*)
- David Brewster (1781–1868) Optical mineralogy, Kaleidoscope (probably believed in an old-earth)
- William Buckland (1784–1856) Geologist (old-earth compromiser*)
- William Prout (1785–1850) Food chemistry (probably believed in an old-earth)
- Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) Geology (old-earth compromiser*)
- John Murray (1786?–1851) Geology
- George Fairholme (1789–1846) Geology
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (WOH) Electro magnetics; Field theory, Generator
- Samuel F.B. Morse (1791–1872) Telegraph
- John Herschel (1792–1871) Astronomy (old-earth compromiser*)
- Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864) Geology (old-earth compromiser*)
- William Whewell (1794–1866) Anemometer (old-earth compromiser*)
- William Rhind (1797–1874) Geology
- Joseph Henry (1797–1878) Electric motor; galvanometer
Just after Darwin
- Richard Owen (1804–1892) Zoology; Paleontology (old-earth compromiser*)
- Matthew Maury (1806–1873) Oceanography, Hydrography (probably believed in an old-earth*)
- Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) Glaciology, Ichthyology (old-earth compromiser, polygenist*)
- James Glaisher (1809–1903) Meteorology
- Philip H. Gosse (1810–1888) Ornithologist; zoology
- Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810–1895) Archaeologist
- James Simpson (1811–1870) Gynecology, Anesthesiology
- James Dana (1813–1895) Geology (old-earth compromiser*)
- 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 (probably believed in an old-earth*)
- Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902) Pathology
- Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) (WOH) Genetics
- Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) (WOH) Bacteriology, Biochemistry; Sterilization; Immunization
- Henri Fabre (1823–1915) Entomology of living insects
- William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) Energetics; Absolute temperatures; Atlantic cable (believed in an older earth than the Bible indicates, but far younger than the evolutionists wanted*)
- 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) (WOH) 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) Archaeologist
- John Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945) Electronics; electron tube; thermionic valve
The modern period
- Dr Clifford Burdick (1919–2005), Geology
- Dr Larry Butler, Biochemistry
- George Washington Carver (1864–1943) Inventor
- Ernst Chain (1906–1979) Shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for co-discovering penicillin. Chain was a devout Orthodox Jew and strongly anti-Darwinian.
- Dr Donald Chittick, Physical Chemist
- L. Merson Davies (1890–1960) Geology; paleontology
- Sir John C. Eccles (1903–1997) Neurophysiology. 1993 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
- Douglas Dewar (1875–1957) Ornithology
- Dr Duane Gish (1921–2013), Biochemistry (protein synthesis)
- Howard A. Kelly (1858–1943) Gynecology
- Paul Lemoine (1878–1940) Geology
- Richard Lumsden (1938–1997) was professor of parasitology and cell biology at Tulane University (he converted from evolution to creation and then to Christ)
- Dr John Mann, Agriculturist, biological control pioneer
- Dr Frank Marsh (1899–1992), Biology (plant ecology); one of the founders of the Creation Research Society and a strong proponent of limited variation within ‘baramins’ (created kinds).
- Edward H. Maunder (1869–1931) Astronomy
- Robert A. Millikan (1868–1953) Physicist
- Dr Albert Mills (1943–2011), Reproductive Physiology, Embryology, pioneered non-surgical embryo transfer in cattle.
- Dr Henry M. Morris (1918–2006) Hydrologist
- Prof. Nicolae Paulescu (1890–1960) Human physiology, medicine
- Prof. Richard Porter (1935–2005), orthopaedic surgeon, human spine and foot expert
- William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Archaeology
- William Ramsay (1852–1916) Isotopic chemistry, element transmutation
- Dr Craig Russell (1966–2019), Soil science, plant nutrition, ecology
- Dr Richard (Rick) Smalley (1943–2005) Nanotechnology. Was Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, USA. Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research in fullerenes (buckyballs).
- Charles Stine (1882–1954) Organic Chemistry
- Dr Arthur Rendle Short (1885–1955) Surgery
- Prof. J. Rendle-Short (1919–2010), Pediatrics, Autism research
- Sir Cecil P. G. Wakeley (1892–1979) Surgery
- Prof. Verna Wright (1928–1998), Rheumatology
- Arthur E. Wilder-Smith (1915–1995) Three earned science doctorates, over 70 research papers, a creation science pioneer
- Dr Clifford Wilson (1923–2012), Psycholinguistics and Archaeology
Scientists who are against the biblical view of creation
- Science, Creation and Evolutionism: Response to the latest anticreationist agitprop from the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Science, Evolution and Creationism
- 15 ways to refute materialistic bigotry: A point by point response to Scientific American
- A Who’s Who of Evolutionists
- Misotheist’s misology: Dawkins attacks Behe but digs himself into logical potholes
- Amazing admission: Richard Lewontin on a priori materialism
- How Religiously Neutral are the Anti-Creationist Organisations? (NCSE and Australian Skeptics)
- The Skeptics and their ‘Churchian’ Allies
- What is the evidence that Gould was a Marxist?
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