Which scientists of the past believed in a Creator?

As far as we know, the scientists of the past listed here believed in a literal Genesis unless indicated with an asterisk. The ones who did not are nevertheless included in the list below because of their general belief in the creator God of the Bible and opposition to evolution. But because the idea that the earth is “millions of years” old has been disastrous in the long run, no present day “long-agers” are included intentionally, because we submit that they should know better.

Note: These scientists are sorted by birth year.

HISTORICAL CREATION SCIENTISTS

Early

• Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Scientific method.
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) (WOH) Physics, Astronomy (see also The Galileo affair: history or heroic hagiography?)
• Johann Kepler (1571–1630) (WOH) Scientific astronomy
• Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680) Inventor
• John Wilkins (1614–1672)
• Walter Charleton (1619–1707) President of the Royal College of Physicians
• Blaise Pascal (biography page) and article from Creation magazine (1623–1662) Hydrostatics; Barometer
• Sir William Petty (1623–1687) Statistics; Scientific economics
• Robert Boyle (1627–1691) (WOH) Chemistry; Gas dynamics
• John Ray (1627–1705) Natural history
• Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) Professor of Mathematics
• Nicolas Steno (1638–1686) Stratigraphy
• Thomas Burnet (1635–1715) Geology
• Increase Mather (1639–1723) Astronomy
• Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) Medical Doctor, Botany

The Age of Newton

• Isaac Newton (1642–1727) (WOH) Dynamics; Calculus; Gravitation law; Reflecting telescope; Spectrum of light (wrote more about the Bible than science) and emphatically affirmed a Creator. Some have accused him of Arianism, but it’s likely he held to a heterodox form of the Trinity—See Pfizenmaier, T.C., Was Isaac Newton an Arian? Journal of the History of Ideas 68(1):57–80, 1997)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) Mathematician
• John Flamsteed (1646–1719) Greenwich Observatory Founder; Astronomy
• William Derham (1657–1735) Ecology
• Cotton Mather (1662–1727) Physician
• John Harris (1666–1719) Mathematician
• John Woodward (1665–1728) Paleontology
• William Whiston (1667–1752) Physics, Geology
• John Hutchinson (1674–1737) Paleontology
• Johathan Edwards (1703–1758) Physics, Meteorology
• Carolus Linneaus (1707–1778) Taxonomy; Biological classification system
• Jean Deluc (1727–1817) Geology
• Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) Mineralogy
• William Herschel (1738–1822) Galactic astronomy; Uranus (probably believed in an old earth)
• James Parkinson (1755–1824) Physician (old-earth compromiser*)
• John Dalton (1766–1844) Atomic theory; Gas law
• John Kidd, MD (1775–1851) Chemical synthetics (old-earth compromiser*)

Just Before Darwin

• The 19th Century Scriptural Geologists, by Dr. Terry Mortenson
• Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) Educator
• William Kirby (1759–1850) Entomologist
• Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826) Geographer
• Benjamin Barton (1766–1815) Botanist; Zoologist
• Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) Comparative anatomy, paleontology (old-earth compromiser*)
• Samuel Miller (1769–1850) Clergy
• Charles Bell (1774–1842) Anatomist
• Humphrey Davy (1778–1829) Thermokinetics; Safety lamp
• Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864) Mineralogist (old-earth compromiser*)
• Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) Physician; Physiologist
• Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Professor (old-earth compromiser*)
• David Brewster (1781–1868) Optical mineralogy, Kaleidoscope (probably believed in an old-earth)
• William Buckland (1784–1856) Geologist (old-earth compromiser*)
• William Prout (1785–1850) Food chemistry (probably believed in an old-earth)
• Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) Geology (old-earth compromiser*)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (WOH) Electro magnetics; Field theory, Generator
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872) Telegraph
• John Herschel (1792–1871) Astronomy (old-earth compromiser*)
• Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864) Geology (old-earth compromiser*)
• William Whewell (1794–1866) Anemometer (old-earth compromiser*)
• Joseph Henry (1797–1878) Electric motor; Galvanometer

Just After Darwin

• Richard Owen (1804–1892) Zoology; Paleontology (old-earth compromiser*)
• Matthew Maury (1806–1873) Oceanography, Hydrography (probably believed in an old-earth*)
• Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) Glaciology, Ichthyology (old-earth compromiser, polygenist*)
• Henry Rogers (1808–1866) Geology
• James Glaisher (1809–1903) Meteorology
• Philip H. Gosse (1810–1888) Ornithologist; Zoology
• Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810–1895) Archaeologist
• James Simpson (1811–1870) Gynecology, Anesthesiology
• James Dana (1813–1895) Geology (old-earth compromiser*)
• Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817–1901) Agricultural Chemist
• James Joule (1818–1889) Thermodynamics
• Thomas Anderson (1819–1874) Chemist
• Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900) Astronomy
• George Stokes (1819–1903) Fluid Mechanics
• John William Dawson (1820–1899) Geology (probably believed in an old earth*)
• Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902) Pathology
• Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) (WOH) Genetics
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) (WOH) Bacteriology, Biochemistry; Sterilization; Immunization
• Henri Fabre (1823–1915) Entomology of living insects
• William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) Energetics; Absolute temperatures; Atlantic cable (believed in an older earth than the Bible indicates, but far younger than the evolutionists wanted*)
• William Huggins (1824–1910) Astral spectrometry
• Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) Non-Euclidean geometries
• Joseph Lister (1827–1912) Antiseptic surgery
• Balfour Stewart (1828–1887) Ionospheric electricity
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) (WOH) Electrodynamics; Statistical thermodynamics
• P. G. Tait (1831–1901) Vector analysis
• John Bell Pettigrew (1834–1908) Anatomist; Physiologist
• John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919) Similitude; Model Analysis; Inert Gases
• Sir William Abney (1843–1920) Astronomy
• Alexander MacAlister (1844–1919) Anatomy
• A.H. Sayce (1845–1933) Archeologist
• John Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945) Electronics; Electron tube; Thermionic valve

Early Modern Period

• George Washington Carver (1864–1943) Inventor
• L. Merson Davies (1890–1960) Geology; Paleontology
• Douglas Dewar (1875–1957) Ornithologist
• Howard A. Kelly (1858–1943) Gynecology
• Paul Lemoine (1878–1940) Geology
• Dr. Frank Marsh (1899–1992), Biology
• Dr. John Mann, Agriculturist, biological control pioneer
• Edward H. Maunder (1851–1928) Astronomy
• William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Archeologist
• William Ramsay (1852–1916) Isotopic chemistry, Element transmutation
• Charles Stine (1882–1954) Organic Chemist
• Dr. Arthur Rendle-Short (1885–1953) Surgeon
• Dr. Larry Butler (1933–1997), Biochemist
• Sir Cecil P. G. Wakeley (1892–1979), Surgery
• Dr. Clifford Burdick (1919–2005), Geologist

Modern Period

• Dr. Thomas Barnes, (1911–2011), Physics
• Arthur E. Wilder-Smith (1915–1995), Three science doctorates; a creation science pioneer.
• Dr. John W. Klotz (1918–1996), Biology
• Dr. Henry M. Morris (1918–2006), Hydrology
• Dr. Charles Taylor (1918–2009), Linguistics
• Dr. Duane Gish (1921–2013), Biochemistry
• Dr. Clifford Wilson (1923–2012), Psycholinguistics and Archaeology
• Prof. Verna Wright (1928–1998), Rheumatology
• Dr. Leonid Korochkin (1935–2006), Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology
• Dr. William Arion (1940–2010), Biochemistry, Chemistry