Interesting blog on SciAm

[LSU]

Not so much for the actual blog, but for the discussion that ensues:

http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=would_your_favorite_17th_18th_or_1 9th_ce&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


The topic:

Would your favorite 17th, 18th or 19th-century scientist be a creationist today?

[Vegas]

It's an interesting question. Newton and Maxwell are two my favorites that I know enough about to say that they would always be a Creationist. I don't know enough about some others to say with too much conviction either way.

A Caltech professor I know claims that Maxwell spoke to God directly. He says that's the only possible explanation for how he wrote his equations.

[LSU]

It's an interesting question. Newton and Maxwell are two my favorites that I know enough about to say that they would always be a Creationist. I don't know enough about some others to say with too much conviction either way.

A Caltech professor I know claims that Maxwell spoke to God directly. He says that's the only possible explanation for how he wrote his equations.



I think the blog writer made on good point...it's hard to say what any scientist would have believed before Darwin formulated the theory. As for speaking to God...well...