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T H E Q U R ' A N L E A D S T H E W A Y T O S C I E N C E

MODERN SCIENTISTS OF FAITH
G reat strides were made in science in the 20th century, and many
discoveries, which had remained unknown for years, were unfurled. The
progress science has made has demonstrated one fact clearly: The fact of
creation.
Each scientific discovery points to a perfect design, order, and plan, in
every part of nature, living or non-living. Themselves testifying to this
truth, many scientists have seen that the design of the entire universe is
the work of a superior Wisdom, and have gone on to defend the fact of
creation, recognizing that everything has been created by the Almighty

God.
Today, there are many respected academic organizations in the West,
particularly in the USA, which have been established by believing
scientists. These institutions work to make clear that scientific evidence
confirms the perfect design of the universe.
Some of the scientists of faith of today, who are recognized for their
scientific achievements, are as follows:

Dr. Fritz Schaefer is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, and the
d i rector of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, at the
University of Georgia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize, and
was recently cited as the third most quoted chemist in the world. Schaefer,
a believing scientist, aspires to better know God through his scientific
pursuits. As he puts it:
The significance and joy in my science comes in the occasional
moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's
how God did it!' 129

One of the most noted physicists of our day, Singer, rejects the theory of
evolution and believes in God. At a conference, he criticized the theory of

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