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Scientists of Faith

According to the Doppler
effect, the spectrum of
light waves change in
direct proportion to a
galaxy's distance to the
Earth. This picture shows
this change. Sir Huggins,
who was the first to
identify the Doppler
effect, was a scientist
who believed in God.

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Maxwell lived a short, but uniquely productive life. Recognized as the
father of modern physics, Maxwell demonstrated the unity of light and
electricity, bringing light, electricity, and magnetism together under one
set of equations. Einstein relied on Maxwell's equations to formulate the
theory of relativity.
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
Joseph Clerk Maxwell work as will benefit religion. 115
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John Strutt pursued studies on the motions of electromagnetic waves,
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