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Prior to this, scientists were usually called "natural philosophers" or "natural historians." (The oldest scientific journal in the world, established in 1665, is entitled ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.'' Among its early numbers are letters from Leeuwenhoek describing his discovery of microorganisms). | Prior to this, scientists were usually called "natural philosophers" or "natural historians." (The oldest scientific journal in the world, established in 1665, is entitled ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.'' Among its early numbers are letters from Leeuwenhoek describing his discovery of microorganisms). | ||
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| + | Scientists have traditionally been holy men (such as devout Christian [[Isaac Newton]]<ref> http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html</ref> or monk Gregor Mendel<ref>http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Gregor_Mendel.html</ref>), devoted to understanding nature in an effort to glorify the works of God. However, in recent years the field of science has become dominated by secular atheists who value evidence over the infallible word of God<ref>http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html</ref>. They support modern-day scientific theories such as [[evolution]], the [[Theory of Relativity]], and heliocentrism that contradict the unchanging truth of the Bible. | ||
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A scientist is a practitioner of science.
The invention of the word scientist is often credited to William Whewell (1794-1866), who was himself a scientist as well as a moral philosopher and Anglican priest. In 1858, he wrote:
- As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have referred to him as a Physicist.
- We need very much[sic] a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.[1]
Prior to this, scientists were usually called "natural philosophers" or "natural historians." (The oldest scientific journal in the world, established in 1665, is entitled Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Among its early numbers are letters from Leeuwenhoek describing his discovery of microorganisms).
Scientists have traditionally been holy men (such as devout Christian Isaac Newton[2] or monk Gregor Mendel[3]), devoted to understanding nature in an effort to glorify the works of God. However, in recent years the field of science has become dominated by secular atheists who value evidence over the infallible word of God[4]. They support modern-day scientific theories such as evolution, the Theory of Relativity, and heliocentrism that contradict the unchanging truth of the Bible.
References
- ↑ Whewell, William (1858), Novum Organon Renovatum: Being the second part of the philosophy of the inductive sciences, J. W. Parker and Son, p. 338
- ↑ http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html
- ↑ http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Gregor_Mendel.html
- ↑ http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html