25 Famous Scientists on God

Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630), one of the greatest astronomers:
“God is great. Great is his power, infinite his wisdom. Praise him, heaven and earth, sun, moon, and stars in your own language. My Lord and my Creator! I would like to proclaim the magnificence of your works to men to the extent that my limited intelligence can understand.”

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), astronomer and the first in-depth proponent of heliocentrism:
“Who could live in close contact with the most consummate order and divine wisdom and not feel drawn to the loftiest aspirations? Who could not adore the architect of all these things?”

Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727), founder of classical theoretical physics:

“What we know is a drop, what we do not know is a vast ocean. The admirable arrangement and harmony of the
universe could only have come from the plan of an omniscient and omnipotent Being.”

Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), founder of systematic botany:
“I have seen the eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent God pass close by, and I knelt prostrate in adoration.”

Alessandro Volta (1745 – 1827), discovered the basic notions of electricity: 
“I confess the holy, apostolic, and Roman Catholic faith. I thank God who has given me this faith, in which I have the firm intention to live and die.”

Andre-Marie Ampere (1775 – 1836), discovered the fundamental laws of electricity:
“How great is God, and our science is just a trifle!”

Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789 – 1857), a distinguished mathematician, founder of complex analysis: 
“I am a Christian, that is, I believe in the divinity of Christ, like all the great astronomers and all the great mathematicians of the past.”

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), dubbed the “Prince of Mathematicians,” because his insights contributed to many fields of mathematics and science:
“When our last hour sounds, we will have the great and ineffable joy of seeing the one whom we could only glimpse in all our work.”

Justus von Liebig (1803 – 1873), a celebrated chemist:
“The greatness and infinite wisdom of the Creator will be recognized only by those who really endeavor to draw their ideas from the great book we call nature.”

Robert Mayer (1814 – 1878), natural scientist (Law of the Conservation of Energy):
“I am ending my life with a conviction that comes from the depths of my heart: true science and true philosophy can not be anything but a[n introductory study] of the Christian religion.”

Angelo Secchi (1803 – 1895), famous astronomer:
“From contemplating the heavens to God, there is only a short distance.”

Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882), Theory of Evolution:
“I have never denied the existence of God. I think the theory of evolution is fully compatible with faith in God. I think the greatest argument for the existence of God is the impossibility of demonstrating and understanding that the immense universe, sublime above all measure, and man were the result of chance.”

Thomas A. Edison (1847 – 1931), the prolific inventor who held 1200 patents:
“My utmost respect and admiration to all the engineers, especially the greatest of them all: God.”

Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859 – 1922), famous surgeon, pioneer of  local anesthesia:
“I became a believer in my own way through the microscope and observation of nature, and I want to contribute, insofar as I can, to the full harmony between science and religion.”

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 – 1937), inventor of wireless telegraphy, Nobel Prize 1909:
“I declare it proudly: I am a believer. I believe in the power of prayer, and I believe not only as a Catholic, but also as a scientist.”

Robert Millikan (1868 – 1953), great American physicist, Nobel Prize 1923:
“I can assert most definitely that the denial of faith lacks any scientific basis. In my view, there will never be a true contradiction between faith and science.”

Arthur Eddingtong (1882 – 1946), English Astronomer Royal, mathematician and astrophysicist:
“None of the inventors of atheism was a naturalist. All of them were very mediocre philosophers.”

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), founder of modern physics (Theory of Relativity inter alia) and 1921 Nobel prize:
“Everyone who is seriously committed to the cultivation of science becomes convinced that in all the laws of the universe is manifest a spirit vastly superior to man, and to which we with our powers must feel humble.”

Max Planck (1858 – 1947), founder of quantum physics, Nobel Prize 1918:
“Nothing prevents us, and the momentum of our knowledge requires it… to interrelate the order of the universe and the God of religion. For the believer, God stands at the beginning of their speeches; for the physicist, at the end of them.”

Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 1961), discoverer of wave mechanics, Nobel Prize 1933:
“The finest masterpiece is the one made by God, according to the principles of quantum mechanics…”

Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973), computer pioneer:
“Modern physics teaches me that nature is not capable of ordering itself. The universe presupposes a huge mass of order. It therefore requires a great “First Cause” that is not subject to the second law of transformation of energy and that is therefore Supernatural.”

Wernher von Braun (1912 – 1977), German-American, foremost rocket engineer and space architect:
“Above everything is the glory of God, who created the great universe, which man and science discover and research day after day in profound adoration.”

Charles Townes (1915), physicist who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for discovering the principles of the laser:
“As a religious man, I feel the presence and intervention of a Creator beyond myself, but who is always nearby… intelligence had something to do with the creation of the laws of the universe.”

Allan Sandage (1926-2010) American astronomer, calculated the rate at which the universe expands and its age by observing distant stars:
“I was practically an atheist in my childhood. Science was what led me to the conclusion that the world is much more complex than we can explain. I can only explain the mystery of existence to myself by the Supernatural.”

Imagine What May Have Happened That Day

He placed one scoop of clay upon another until a form lay lifeless on the ground.

All the garden’s inhabitants paused to witness the event. Hawks hovered. Giraffes stretched. Trees bowed. Butterflies paused on petals and watched.

You will love me nature, God said, I made you that way.

You will obey me, universe, for you were designed to do so.

You will reflect my glory, skies, for that is how you were created.

But this one will be like me. This one will be able to choose.

All were silent as the Creator reached inside Himself and removed something yet unseen.

It’s called ‘choice’ the seed of choice.

Creation stood in silence and gazed upon the lifeless form.

An angel spoke, “But what if He…..”

What if he chooses not to love?” the Creator finished, “Come I will show you.”

Unbound by today, God and the angel walked into the realm of tomorrow.

There, see the fruit of the seed of choice, both the sweet And the bitter.

The angel gasped at what he saw. Spontaneous love.  Voluntary devotion.

Chosen tenderness. Never had he seen anything like these. He felt the love of the Adams. He heard the joy of Eve and her daughters. He saw the food and the burdens shared. He absorbed the kindness and marvelled at the warmth.

Ah, but you’ve only seen the sweet. Now witness the bitter.

A stench enveloped the pair. The angel turned in horror and proclaimed “What is it?”

The creator spoke only one word “Selfishness!.”

The angel stood speechless as they passed through centuries of repugnance.

Never had he seen such filth. Rotten hearts, Ruptured promises, forgotten loyalties.

Children of the creation wandering blindly in lonely labyrinths.

This is the result of choice? The angel asked.

YES

They will forget you?

Yes.

They will reject you?

Yes,

They will never come back.

Some will, most won’t

What will it take to make them listen?

The creator walked on in time, further and further into the future, until he stood by a tree. A tree that would be fashioned into a cradle. Even then he could smell the hay that would surround him.

With another step into the future, he paused before another tree.

It stood alone, a stubborn ruler on bald hill. The trunk was thick and the wood was strong.

Soon it would be cut. Soon it would be trimmed.

Soon it would be mounted on the stony brow of another hill. And soon he would be hung on it.

He felt the wood rub against a back he did not yet wear.

“Will you go down there?” the angel asked.

I will.

Is there no other way?

There is not.

Wouldn’t it be easier to not plant the seed. Wouldn’t it be easier to not give the choice?

“It would”, the Creator spoke slowly. “But to remove the choice is to remove the love.”

He looked around the hill and foresaw a scene. Three figures hung on three crosses.

Arms spread, heads fallen forward. They moaned with the wind.

Men clad in soldiers garb sat on the ground near the trio. They played games in the dirt and laughed.

Men clad in religion stood off to one side. They smiled arrogant, cocky,

They had protected God, they thought by killing this false one.

A Woman clad in sorrow huddled at the foot of the hill. Speechless, Faces tear streaked.

Eyes downward One put her arm around another and tried to lead her away.

She wouldn’t leave. I will stay she said softly, I will stay.

All heaven stood to fight. All nature rose to the rescue. All eternity poised to protect but the creator gave no command.

“It must be done”, he said, and withdrew.

But as He stepped in time, he heard the cry that He would one day scream.

My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” He wrenched at tomorrow’s agony.

The angel spoke again….”It would be less painful…..”

The creator interrupted softly. “But it wouldn’t be love.”

They stepped into the garden again.

The maker looked earnestly at the clay creation.

A monsoon of love swelled up within him. He had died for the creation before He had made Him.

God’s form bent over the sculptured face and breathed. Dust stirred on the lips of the new one.

The chest rose cracking the red mud. The cheeks fleshened. A finger moved and an eye opened.

But more incredible than the moving of the flesh was the stirring of the spirit. Those who could see the unseen gasped.

Perhaps it was the wind who said it first.

Perhaps what the star saw that moment is what has made it blink ever since.

Maybe it was left for an angel to whisper it.

“It looks like…it appears so much like….it is Him!

The angel wasn’t speaking of the face, the features or the body, He was looking inside at the soul.

It’s eternal! Gasped another.

Within the man, God had placed a divine seed. A seed of Himself (A seed of choice)

The God of might had created earths mightiest.

And the one who had chosen to love had created one who could love in return.

Now it’s our choice!.

 

Max Lucado

Food For Thought

What used to be called modesty – is now called a sex hang-up.

What used to be called Christine discipline – is now called unhealthy repression.

What used to be called moral irresponsibility – is now called freed up.

What used to be called living in sin – is now called a meaningful relationship.

What used to be called chastity – is now neurotic inhibitions.

What used to be called perversion – is now called alternate life style.

What used to be called depravity – is now called creative self-expression.

What used to be called ethical anarchy – is now called the theology of liberation.

As a nation, we are turning our back on our Creator, we want  His blessings of prosperity and happiness, of peace and abundance, but we want it “our way” not “His way”.

To such a nation God says – “Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes.”

(Unknown)

I Have a Crutch

As a Christian I have often heard nonbelievers express the notion that faith in a God just a crutch for the weak, those unable or unwilling to face life’s woes by themselves. In many ways I would suggest they are absolute right, I am such a person, I have such a crutch… the crutch above all crutches… I have our Lord and Saviour, and I most certainly lean on him.. constantly. Having the all-knowing and all-seeing God as my crutch gives me a certain advantage over those who don’t. It is He that lifts the weight of worry from my shoulders. Worries about the ills of this world and of the troubles to come are of little burden to me. I say little because sometimes anger, frustration and worry do creep in. However it is because of Him that I know that the trials of this life are of little long term consequence for me, and when I return home to be with Him I will be oblivious to them all. He is my assurance of better things to come. He is my comforter, my peace of mind and whether He’s real or not I still draw my strength from Him, or at least, the notion of Him.

But what of those who don’t believe there is a God. Where do they find comfort? Who is their strength? Who or what do they lean on in their hour of despair? It can be hardly a comfort ‘knowing’ that life has no purpose, that we are all just screwed up DNA, and all the grief and misery we suffer as we wander from one end of this short pointless life to the other is totally meaningless and at the end of it, your reward for participating is nothing more than rotting flesh.

Now I freely admit I lean on my God for all things, but here’s the rub. Even if My God doesn’t exist, and my belief in Him is pie in the sky I still find my strength in Him, in what I believe to be true.. that He is the origin of all things good within me and throughout the whole world, and once I have ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ I’ll be “with Him in paradise for eternity where there will be no more tears, no more pain”, (Revelation 21:4). In the meantime I will have found comfort and relief in an expectation of a better tomorrow. If I’m wrong? Well then I get the same as my atheist friend, I’m left to rot in the ground like all else.

Death – A Wonderful Explanation

A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, “Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side.”

Very quietly, the doctor said, “I don’t know.”

“You don’t know? You’re, a Christian man, and don’t know what’s on the other side?”

The doctor was holding the handle of the door; on the other side came a sound of scratching and whining, and as he opened the door, a dog sprang into the room and leaped on him with an eager show of gladness.

Turning to the patient, the doctor said, “Did you notice my dog? He’s never been in this room before. He didn’t know what was inside. He knew nothing except that his master was here, and when the door opened, he sprang in without fear. I know little of what is on the other side of death, but I do know one thing… I know my Master is there and that is enough.”

“You know you’re a wood turner when…….

1. your cat thinks you live in the shed, and you just visit the house sometimes.

2. you are driving down the street admiring the lumps and bumps and interesting crotches and you all of a sudden realize you’re lusting after trees.

3. you get excited at seeing how far your gouge can shoot streamers of wood.

4. your ute will automatically drive itself toward the sound of a distant chain saw.

5. the largest landscaping feature of your home is a stack of logs of various species.

6. you name your dogs “Woodfast”, “Jet”, “Oliver”, or “Teknatool”.

7. you can’t see the forest for the trees…..literally.

8. you take your mini lathe on vacations with you (just in case).

9. your clean clothes fresh from the clothes dryer have (clean and dry) wood shavings in the pockets.

10. you have to sprinkle sawdust on your food before it tastes right.

11.  you have a hole in your elbow from forgetting to move the tailstock.

12. your shower drain is clogged with wood chips.

13. you feel an inexplicable emptiness every time you throw a piece of wood in the bin.

14. you know every burl on every tree between home and work and you hope to catch someone cutting down a tree that has a burl on it and hope they have no clue what it is.

15. you tear out the bottom seam in your work shirt pockets so they don’t fill up with shavings.

16. you hear a chainsaw start and you tell your wife, “You’ll be back in a minute”.

17. you’re watching a movie like Avatar, see a CGI tree that’s half a mile high, and think “I wonder if I could get a chunk of that on my lathe…”

18. you find wood shavings in your bed because you were too tired to shower after finishing your piece at 2 am and your wife knows where you went in the house by the trail of wood chips you left behind.

19. your “signature style” no longer has anything to do with how you sign your name.

20. a “void” has become something to be desired.

21. your wife has given up trying to keep wood chips out of the house.

22. watching Star Trek personnel in the forest of an alien planet, you send them a subspace message to beam back a section of that fallen tree trunk they just climbed over.

23. you come to the back door of the house and your wife tells you to STRIP, but not in the tone of voice you hope to hear her say it.

24. And you can be absolutely positive you’re a wood turner if your wife says to you, “We have ENOUGH ROUND THINGS, and the next round object you bring to me better have a five-carat diamond in it!”

Beatitudes for Friends of the Aged

Beatitudes for Friends of the Aged

=Esther Mary Walker=

 Blessed are they who understand

My faltering step and palsied hand.

Blessed are they who know that my ears today

Must strain to catch the things they say.

Blessed are they who seem to know

That my eyes are dim and my wits are slow.

Blessed are they who looked away

When coffee spilled at table today.

Blessed are they with a cheery smile

Who stopped to chat for a little while.

 Blessed are they who never say,

“You’ve told that story twice today.”

Blessed are they who know the ways

To bring back memories of yesterdays.

 Blessed are they who make it known

That I’m loved, respected, and not alone.

Blessed are they who know I’m at a loss

To find the strength to carry the Cross.

 Blessed are they who ease the days

On my journey home in loving ways.

I’m With Him

2 Peter 2:1-3 (Destructive Doctrines)

“But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.”, 2 Peter 2:1-3 (NKJV)

I once heard someone asked at a Bible study, “What do you think caused Peter and his brother to down tools and follow Jesus?” as in Matthew 4:19, and Mark 1:17. Many explanations were expounded from “They must have sat around having a ‘yak’ for a while so Christ could convince them to follow Him, to, the brothers would have already heard about his preaching. The latter would seem unlikely as this happened at the beginning of Christ’s ministry and there would not have been much to yak about as yet. As others chimed in with their theories I pondered, “Who did these people think Christ was? Was He not God incarnate?

I asked, “Don’t you think the mere presence of Our Lord could have been convincing enough if He had wished it.”  Nobody seemed to be convinced that I may of have had a point.

But why not? Can’t the omnipresent, omnipotent Almighty God, the One who created all, put into a man’s heart what He will? Of course He can, and to think otherwise is, in my humble opinion, an attempt to castrate God Himself, but that’s what the religions of men do.

Never could I have feigned the disbelief I felt when I read the 1999 statement of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey which in part read, “I can tell you frankly that while we can be absolutely sure that Jesus lived . . . we cannot with the same certainty say that we know He was raised by God from the dead.” Excuse me….. Isn’t the very foundation of the Christian faith the virgin birth, the death and THE RESURRECTION of Christ? Without this there is no forgiveness of sin and without the forgiveness of sin our salvation is fantasy. If such is the case why are we praying to anyone including God?

And why on God’s green earth would anyone, (Archbishops of Canterbury included), who do not believe in the resurrection celebrate Easter? Paying homage to the pagan sun god Apollo would be just as effective in ensuring their salvation. How clear does the Bible have to be? “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9 (NKJV). Nowhere in the Bible does it give us any other means to salvation. In fact Christ Himself said, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6 (NKJV).

Evidently Dr. Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury until December 2012, also finds the English language problematic. On the subject of homosexuals and the church Dr. Williams apparently finds ambiguity in Romans 1:26-27, (NKJV) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.”

 Even if, somehow, he finds this verse unclear, there can be no ambiguity in Leviticus 20:13, (NKJV).  “If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.” He could also read Leviticus 18:22; 1Corinthians 6:9-10 or 1Timothy 1:8-10. Does he think what God found an abomination in the Old Testament is suddenly ‘ok’ when it comes to the times of the New Testament? I don’t think so!! God does not change.. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever”, Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV).

How clear does the Bible have to be? It is an abomination in the eyes of God; it’s God law…. Just because it’s acceptable in the eyes of man doesn’t make it right in the eyes of God’s. Even pornography is right in the sight of man.  God will judge us according to His law, not man’s law, and woe to those who thought they could change the laws of God and not incur His wrath. Remember 2 Peter 2:1 above.

On May 7, 2001, Pope John Paul II told 2,000 youths “you cannot be a Christian if you reject the Church founded on Jesus Christ.” In other words, despite the Bible’s clear message that all who believe in Him, (the virgin birth, the death and the resurrection), will be saved, will in fact not be saved unless they are a member of the Roman Catholic Church. They are not alone; the Jehovah’s Witnesses cult is just one other example who teach the same thing. Putting themselves above God is something that earth bound religions do with great piety. Quite frankly, I find no solace in religions that exalt themselves above God. Furthermore the Roman Catholic Church is not the Church that Christ founded, if it was they would certainly not pray to the ‘saints’. As the Bible states in 1 Timothy 2:5 (NKJV), “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” Christ is our only mediator, also as believers in Christ we are all saints, and I would find little comfort praying to a sinner such as myself, a poor excuse for a mediator if ever there was one. No, on the contrary, my comfort is found in knowing my mediator, my only mediator, is The Sinless Jesus Christ. Moreover they would not be espousing that Christ’s mother Mary remained a sinless virgin her entire life, and instead of dying ascended to become the queen of heaven despite the bible stating Jesus had at least four brothers.

But their self-adoration continues… if it wasn’t subverting God’s word it would be almost comical but how sad is it when  the Church of England issues an apology to Charles Darwin for not embracing his ‘goo to you’ philosophy sooner. Formulated by Rev. Dr. Malcolm Brown, the statement posted on the Church of England website reads in part, “Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still.” They, of course, despite ‘believing’ God’s word believe evolution. The question here is.. How does one preach/teach the word of God when one doesn’t believe it themselves.

The Roman Catholic Church, although not apologizing have at least since 1950 approved Darwin’s theory, and teach theistic evolution. Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister said “creationism belongs to the “strictly theological sphere” and could not be used “ideologically in science.””

Why does one teach of our salvation when clearly they believe the word of God is false? Why do they put man’s understanding above the word of God, man’s science above God’s power and glory? One reason I believe is that they would rather appease man than God, making the church more accepting of man’s understanding. In doing so they place themselves above God, telling God what is right…. telling God He got it wrong. Just how arrogant can the ‘Defenders of our faith’ be?  Instead of standing for the Church that Christ built they stand for the church that man built, and they are NOT the same. How sad it is when such denominations show complete disregard for God’s word.

And on the subject of evolution, Louis Bounoure, director of France’s Strasbourg Zoological Museum and professor of biology at the University of Strasbourg stated: “Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless”.

Useless unless you are an atheist wishing to deny God, or a church willing to compromise God’s truth for the baubles of this world. The thing we must remember is, it’s not about our glory… it’s about God’s G

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