Is there God?

The fool says in his heart that there is no God (Psalm 14:1) but wise men know God exists.

Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, knew God was his source of wisdom. When Jesus was born, wise men went to pay homage. Today, people who are wise still seek Jesus. They know God exists...and that He cares enough to respond to those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6).

There are so many top scientists who believe in God. Below are 10 of the most brilliant scientists of different generations – and what they said to buttress their belief in the existence of God.

“The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.”

“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting 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.”

–Charles Darwin (yes THAT Charles Darwin!) (1809-1882) the founder of evolutionary biology, wrote this in his autobiography, Descent of Man.

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Einstein   Picture: Liberty Voice

“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.”

“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts; the rest are details.”

“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the ‘opium of the masses’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.”

–Albert Einstein (1879-1955), considered by many to be one of the smartest people who ever lived, said these words in different interviews.

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“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”

Newton   Picture: Wikipedia

“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”

—Sir Isaac Newton, (1643-1722), English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded to have been the greatest scientist the world has ever seen. He is most famous for his law of gravitation. His book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy has been called the single most influential book on physics.

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“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.”

–Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., 75-year-old American astrophysicist who received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the first known binary pulsar, and for his work which supported the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe

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“God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.”

—Robert Boyle (1627-1691), Irish philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor who is considered to be the founder of modern chemistry. Boyle, best known for Boyle’s Law, was a devout Anglican.

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Compton   Picture: Wikipedia

“For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – ‘In the beginning God.'”

“Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.”

—Arthur Compton, (1892-1962) American physicist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton Effect which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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“I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.”

“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.”

— Scottish Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, (1831-1879) who is credited with formulating classical electromagnetic theory. His contributions to science are considered to be of the same magnitude to those of Einstein and Newton.

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“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly.”

Born   Picture: Wikipedia

“Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn’t make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.”

–Max Born, (1882-1970) German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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“God wanted us to recognize (laws) by creating us after his own image so that we could share in His own thoughts…”

–Johannes Kepler, (1571-1630) the German mathematician and astronomer who discovered the laws of planetary motion which later served as one of the foundations for Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. Kepler is considered to be one of the founders of the field of astronomy.

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Heisenberg   Picture: Wikipedia

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I am now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on. Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of thought, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.”

—Werner Heisenberg, (1901-1976) German theoretical physicist who was on of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics.