Many Great Scientific Minds Were Religious
A great many leading lights of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment-Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle—were distinctly religious and viewed science as a better means of understanding God's creation and the laws governing it.
Sheril Kirshenbaum, Chris Mooney, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future (2009-07-13)
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And saw science as a better way to understand the creation.
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