Scientists of Faith who lived in the past

Honesty speaking, it does not take much for any individual to see the Glory of God whilst studying His Works,ie His Creation. And such an idea had been conveyed to us a long time ago in the Quran when God says 'We WILL show them Our Signs in the horizons and within themselves."

God Almighty is Az-Zahir, the Manifest, The Overt, and so too are His Signs scattered all over His Creation.

Continuing on with the flow of logic and the assertion above, there can not be any other conclusion but this:
True science, ie Truth, must point to God.

One immediate lesson here: believers ought to study science to fully appreciate His Wonders and Majesty

Ever since the separation of the church from the state and the crisis during the Dark Ages which had shed negative light on religion as a whole as being anti-progressive, backward, ritualistic, dogmatic,demagogic and superstitious, science has been the subject of heated debate, with believers on one side and atheists on the other.

Atheists have become convinced that anything to do with God is not the truth and that only science should illuminate our lives, hence the names Illuminatus, Illuminati etc.

However, God has His own Ways.

At the dawn of the 21st century, latest discoveries in science in practically every field are continuously pointing to the existence of an Omnipotent Creator.

To quote a few of those fields(i will not go in depth, just briefly)

Biominimetics
The field that makes us realise how architecturally advanced the design in animals are, many of which are far more superior than our inventions

Molecular Biology
How the cell, once deemed basic and simplest, is a huge complex organisation thriving with mechanisms and activities. It is also accepted as a law that all cells come from preexisting cells.
They have also realised that information encoded in the DNA is never a tangible, materia one. Information in DNA exists in the form of the RELATIVE positions of the bases A,T,C and G to each other.

Paleontology (fossils,study of)
The Cambrian Explosion, a prehistoric period of time when many of today's existing life forms appear all of a sudden, Fully-Formed.And after millions of years, bees (and also others) today are still bees just as they were millions of years ago.

Astronomy
The Big Bang and the inevitable conclusion that the Universe came into existence from a point of singularity of no dimensions.

Quantum Physics
The new realization that the constituents of atoms, such as protons and electrons, are all composed of packets of energies,and are thus surprisingly 'empty', quarks and the likes of it. Light as being the intermediary between energy and matter, the nature of Light as something immaterial, neither a particle nor a wave as we know it.

Mathematics
The special properties of the non-prime number 1, its apllication and significance in the binary system that runs all computers, in logarithms, arithmetics, calculus etc

The perception that occurs in the Brain
How it is very perceptionistic and illusionary, how the sights that we see, the sounds that we hear are actually just copies of the original and not the original itself. The original that stimulates, ie light, triggers a stimulus which then sends nervous impulses via neurones to be perceived in the brain. Note that the light itself is not the one being perceived. Light has never penetrated your skull to shine on your brain. Colours are accepted to be something that only our brains perceive, they are not real.

Chemistry
How particles, when combined in specific combinations, can produce everything material! The number of electrons, proton numbers, bondings etc. Optical isomerism which employs the principle of relfection in a plane or on a point, the dualtity of MIRROR images. How our bodies can react very differently to two compounds of the same chemical formula but with different structural isomerism, different orientation in 3D space etc.

These and many more, can only baffle the mind and leave us with no choice but to Glorify the One behind the Transcendent Ingenuity.

Albert Einstein, who is one of the most important scientists of the last century, was also known for his faith in God. He did not hesitate to defend that science could not exist without religion. As he put it:
I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame

Responsible for many groundbreaking discoveries, Max Planck believed in an "all-powerful intelligence which governs the universe."126 Max Planck said that the Creator of the order in the universe is God and elaborated on his belief in God with these words:
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.

Albert Einstein called Maxwell's achievement "the most profound and most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton." He was strongly opposed to evolution, and was able to develop a thorough mathematical refutation of the famous "nebular hypothesis" of the French atheist LaPlace. He also wrote an incisive refutation of the evolutionary philosophies of Herbert Spencer, the great advocate of Darwinism. In a letter he mused that the scientist of faith has an obligation to conduct such work as will benefit religion.

Louis Pasteur is one of the greatest figures in the history of science and medicine, chiefly because of his establishment of the germ theory of disease, and his strong opposition to the theory of evolution. He was the first to explain the organic basis and control of fermentation, and as his research led him further and further into bacteriology, he isolated a number of disease-producing organisms, and developed vaccines to combat them - notably the dreaded diseases of rabies, diphtheria, anthrax, and others - as well as the processes of pasteurization and sterilization.
Pasteur, who was a firm believer in God, was the object of fierce opposition because of his resistance to Darwin's theory of evolution. He was a defender of the compatibility of science and religion, which he would often emphasize in his writings. As he put it:
The more I know, the more does my faith approach that of the Breton peasant (i.e., the faith which is serene, complete, unquestioning) Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Having refuted the theory of evolution with his discovery of the principles of inheritance, Gregory Mendel further believed that God had created the world, and that blind chance could not be responsible for the outcome.

Michael Faraday was a scientist who believed in the existence of a Creator, and that science and religion are in harmony. Because one God created the world, he believed, all of nature must be interconnected as a single whole. Based on this idea, he concluded that electricity and magnetism must be interlinked.

Isaac Newton communicated the reason underlying his zeal for scientific endeavor with the following words, in his famous work Principia Mathematica:
...He (God) is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. He is …eternal and infinite; …he endures and is present. He endures forever, and is everywhere present; and, by existing always and everywhere, he constitutes duration and space... We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things... [W]e reverence and adore him as his servants…

Robert Boyle, father of modern chemistry, founder of Boyle's Law of Gases, PV=nRT, said: "Remember to give glory to the one who authored nature… Use knowledge to bring good to mankind."

An eminent figure in the history of science, Blaise Pascal was also a deeply spiritual man. He referred to the eternal power of God when he said that God is the Creator of everything from mathematics to the order of the elements.

As a scientist, Johannes Kepler also believed that the universe was created by a Creator. When he was asked why he practiced science, he said "I had the intention of becoming a theologian... but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'heavens declare the glory of God'".
The life of Kepler, who believed that God's glory was manifested in everything He created, is an example to how successful and broad-thinking a scientist who admits that there is a divine purpose in nature can be. "Who gave white bears and white wolves to the snowy regions of the North, and a food for the bears the whale, and for the wolves, birds' eggs?" asked Kepler and then replied: "Great is our Lord and great His virtue and of his wisdom there is no number: praise Him, ye heavens, praise Him, ye sun, moon, and planets, use every sense for perceiving, every tongue for declaring your Creator. Praise Him, ye celestial Harmonies, praise Him, ye judges of the Harmonies uncovered: and thou my soul, praise the Lord thy Creator, as long as I shall be: for out of Him and through Him and in Him are all things, both the sensible and the intelligible; for both whose whereof we are utterly ignorant and those which we know are the least part of them; because there is still more beyond. To him be praise, honor, and glory, world without end."