| − | '''''John Tyndall'''''(1820–1893) was [[Michael Faraday]]'s successor at the Royal Institute. In comparison to Faraday, his contributions were by and large irrelevant to either actual science in general or physics in particular. Where Faraday was devout [[Christian]] and an elder within his church, Tyndall was an anti-Catholic, even somewhat fanatical, who campaigned tirelessly for liberation of science from ecclesiastical, or Church, influences. Many professors who hold to non-religious views are in fact his mondern day counterparts. In reality utterly ineffective in advancing science, because they lack any sort of relationship with [[God]]. As [[Paul Vitz]] puts it, [[Paul Vitz#Vitz and Creativity|"all creativity has its origin in God; and to claim that an individual human is really creative is either silly or blasphemous."] | + | '''''John Tyndall'''''(1820–1893) was [[Michael Faraday]]'s successor at the Royal Institute. In comparison to Faraday, his contributions were by and large irrelevant to either actual science in general or physics in particular. Where Faraday was devout [[Christian]] and an elder within his church, Tyndall was an anti-Catholic, even somewhat fanatical, who campaigned tirelessly for liberation of science from ecclesiastical, or Church, influences. Many professors who hold to non-religious views are in fact his mondern day counterparts. In reality utterly ineffective in advancing science, because they lack any sort of relationship with [[God]]. As [[Paul Vitz]] puts it, [[Paul Vitz#Vitz and Creativity|"all creativity has its origin in God; and to claim that an individual human is really creative is either silly or blasphemous."]] |