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.

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And saw science as a better way to understand the creation.

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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Mooney, Chris and Kirshenbaum , Sheril (2009-07-13), Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future, Basic Books, Retrieved on 2011-05-28

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