NH Republican State Rep. Brandon Phinney Refers to Religion as “Archaic Beliefs That Deny Reality”

It exists because of people like you who insist that religion and science are mutually exclusive.

Did you look at that list at all? You can claim the numbers show there aren't a lot of religious scientists, and that is true, but some of the names on that list are the biggest names in scientific history.

Francis Bacon: father of the scientific method

Galileo Galilei: goes without saying

Blaise Pascal: Pascal's Law, Pascal's Theorem

Robert Boyle: First modern chemist, Boyle's Law

Isaac Newton: goes without saying

Johannes Kepler: Kepler's laws of planetary motion

Leonhard Euler: should go without saying

Antoine Lavoisier: oxygen's role in combustion, created the periodic table, conservation of mass

Alessandro Volta: invented first battery, Volt named after him

Andre Marie Ampere: founder of electromagnitism, Amp(ere) named after him

Bernhard Riemann: Riemann Integral, fourier series

Michael Faraday: Faraday cage, established electrolysis

James Clerk Maxwell: Maxwell's Equations

Gregor Mendel: Father of genetics

John William Dawson: first President of the Royal Society of Canada, President of both the British and the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Lord Kelvin: Lord f***ing Kelvin!, Kelvin named after him, father of thermodynamics

Wilhelm Röntgen: Nobel Prize in physics for discovering and measuring X-rays

Werner Heisenberg: Nobel prize in physics for quantum theory

Wernher von Braun: the most important person in rocketry

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