Richard Kirwan

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 20:10

Richard Kirwan (1733-1812) was an Irish chemist and mineralogist, president of the Royal Irish Academy for 23 years, and author of the first systematic treatise on mineralogy, also making many contributions to chemistry. He also advocated flood geology and vigorously opposed the increasingly influential uniformitarian theories of James Hutton, the predecessor of Sir Charles Lyell.

Jean-André Deluc

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 20:03

Jean-André Deluc (1727-1817) was a Swiss naturalist and physicist who studied geology and actually coined the word "geology." He was strongly committed to the Genesis record of creation and the worldwide flood. He and his father developed the modern mercury thermometer and the hygrometer.

Gustavus Brander

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 19:56

Gustavus Brander (1720-1787) was an English naturalist and paleontologist, whose abundant fossil collections are now in the British Museum. He wrote in defense of flood geology against the then-growing interest in long geological ages and uniformity. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Trustee of the British Museum.

John Hutchinson

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 19:50

John Hutchinson (1674-1737) was both a Hebrew scholar and an early student of paleontology, following his friend and colleague John Woodward. As Steward to the Duke of Somerset, he developed a strong system of natural philosophy fully consistent with orthodox Christianity. Like Woodward, he strongly defended the Biblical flood as the cause of all major geological landforms.

Cotton Mather

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 19:29

Cotton Mather (1662-1727) was, like his father, a clergyman, theologian and president of Harvard.

William Derham

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 19:18

William Derham (1657-1735) was one of the Boyle lecturers, his treatise (Physico-Theology) being a strong exposition of purposive design in nature by the God of the Bible. He was probably the first writer to argue for the study of science as a stewardship from God, very much in the vein of modern ecology. In a sense, he could be considered the father of ecology.

John Flamsteed

Submitted by Temlakos on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 19:12

John Flamsteed (1646 -1719) was the founder of the famous Greenwich observatory and the first Astronomer Royal of England. He produced the first great star map of the telescopic age, after innumerable observations. The meridians of the world are, as a result, referenced to 0° longitude through his observatory. He was also a faithful clergyman, very devout in his life and preaching.

Increase Mather

Submitted by Temlakos on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 20:55

Increase Mather (1639-1723) is best known as a clergyman and leading theologian in colonial New England, the father of Cotton Mather. He was also an avid avocational astronomer and promoter of science in the colonies.

John Wilkins

Submitted by Temlakos on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 20:08

John Wilkins(1614 -1672) , like many in his day, was both a clergyman and a scientist, defending both the Biblical warrant for scientific study and the scientific evidence supporting theism and Christianity. He was a leading organizing spirit of the growing scientific movement, with a number of his proteges soon forming the Royal Society.

Jack Cuozzo

Submitted by Temlakos on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 07:24

Jack Cuozzo, DDS, MS (1937-23 March 2017) trained in and practiced orthodontics for thirty-one years in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He also applied his orthodontic training and experience to the study of Neanderthal fossils. He showed that Neanderthal Man was never an ape or anything like it. Neanderthal Man was just that: man.

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