Talk:Turing machine

I am not sure if Mr. Turing is the father of modern computer science. I recall reading some material about Christianity and science that briefly mentions Charles Babbage and the birth of computers so I did some quick internet searches just now and here is what I found:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080318065753AAGOXhu

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_John_von_Neumann_is_called_father_of_modern_computer

Here is the original material I read:

"The founders of modern science were all bunched into a particular geographical location dominated by a Judeo-Christian world view. I'm thinking of men like Louis Aggasiz (founder of glacial science and perhaps paleontology); Charles Babbage (often said to be the creator of the computer); Francis Bacon (father of the scientific method); Sir Charles Bell (first to extensively map the brain and nervous system); Robert Boyle (father of modern chemistry); Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative anatomy and perhaps paleontology); John Dalton (father of modern atomic theory); Jean Henri Fabre (chief founder of modern entomology); John Ambrose Fleming (some call him the founder of modern electronics/inventor of the diode); James Joule (discoverer of the first law of thermodynamics); William Thomson Kelvin (perhaps the first to clearly state the second law of thermodynamics); Johannes Kepler (discoverer of the laws of planetary motion); Carolus Linnaeus (father of modern taxonomy); James Clerk Maxwell (formulator of the electromagnetic theory of light); Gregor Mendel (father of genetics); Isaac Newton (discoverer of the universal laws of gravitation); Blaise Pascal (major contributor to probability studies and hydrostatics); Louis Pasteur (formulator of the germ theory)."[1]

I have read and also heard lectures that often times that technological advances are more often achieved incrementally in a particular area of technology rather than done in quantum leaps.[2]. If memory serves, and it may not, the historian Fernand Braudel took this view.[3][4] conservative 11:36, 29 November 2009 (EST)