Re: Copernicus & Euler

From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 16:22:33 EDT

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    And dont forget all the Christian geologists and biologists ; Sedgwick,
    Henslow, Conybeare x2, Buckland, Fleming, Asa Gray , Hitchcock, Wright,
    Phillips etc etc .
    After most of the people who set up the wicked evolutionary uniformitarian
    geologic column were um Christians.

    Michael

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
    To: <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:22 PM
    Subject: Copernicus & Euler

    >
    > Today the calendar of the Lutheran Book of Worship lists the
    > commemorations of scientists Nicolaus Copernicus (+1543) and Leonhard
    > Euler (+1783). Everybody has heard of Copernicus & all mathematicians &
    > physicists know of Euler. (It would be interesting to have a list of
    > all the "Euler equations" - I can think of 4 off the top of my head.
    > Remembering scientists who have been Christians in, e.g., the
    > Prayers of the Church on Sunday is one low key way of helping to
    > overcome the idea that science & Christianity are at war. Many other
    > names could be mentioned - Maxwell, Pascal, Leavitt, Compton, Mendel,
    > Teilhard, &c.
    >
    >
    > Shalom,
    >
    > George
    >
    > George L. Murphy
    > http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
    > "The Science-Theology Interface"
    >



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