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THE QUR'AN LEADS THE W A Y TO SCIENCE

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The great American physicist and devout scientist, Joseph Henry, was
a professor at Princeton University. Henry, who invented the
electromagnetic motor and the galvanometer, had made it a regular habit
to stop to worship God, and then to pray for divine guidance, at every
important juncture of an experiment, in all his experimentation. 104

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Agassiz, widely recognized as the greatest
American biologist, was an inveterate opponent
of evolutionism.
Agassiz saw the divine plan of God
everywhere in nature, and could not reconcile
himself to a theory that did not acknowledge
design. As he wrote, in his Essay on
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The combination in time and space of all these
thoughtful conceptions exhibits not only thought, it shows also
premeditation, power, wisdom, greatness, prescience, omniscience,
providence. In one word, all these facts in their natural connection
proclaim aloud the One God, whom man may know, adore, and love. 105
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Besides his discovery of the first law of
thermodynamics, Joule also showed how to calculate
the heat produced by an electric current moving
through a wire, and was the first to calculate the
velocity of a gas molecule. His greatest discovery was
the value of the constant known as the "mechanical
equivalent of heat". This discovery led to the
James formulation of the law of conservation of energy, the
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most basic and universal of all scientific laws.
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