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Science & Christianity
Over the years I’ve explained the many significant things science and Christianity have in common. For instance, both require faith, both are translogical, both point to God. See my book Believing Is Seeing for details.
In this letter I call your attention to another major similarity, namely: Christianity is the only religion that, like science, has a significant presence and influence on all seven continents.
According to Pew Research Center’s latest worldwide census, 31% of the world’s 2.3 billion Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa; 24% in Latin America and the Caribbean; 22% in Europe; 10% in North America. Millions more live throughout Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and the Middle East.
Christianity’s geographic reach extends even to Antarctica, which has 70 scientific bases and 8 Christian chapels/churches. These include the “Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows,” carved out of solid ice at Argentina's Belgrano II Base. It’s the southernmost place of religious worship on the planet.
Seven Historic Contributions
With this in mind, I thought I’d give you a sense of the incalculable influence Christian scientists worldwide have had on human history. So, my fellow traveler, grab your virtual passport and follow me!
Europe
Michael Faraday, born into poverty in 19th-century England, became a deeply committed Christian and one of history’s greatest experimental scientists. His favorite Bible verse was Romans 1:20.
As a devout Sandemanian - a small, devout Christian sect - Faraday believed that the same God who authored Scripture also authored a well-ordered creation. That conviction drove his lifelong search for hidden connections in the natural world.
While working at London’s famous Royal Institution, Faraday discovered one of those connections and it changed the course of humankind. He discovered that a changing magnetic field produces an electric current - a revelation that led to the invention of the electric power plant, electric motor, electric generator and the entire Electric Revolution.
North America
For generations, yellow fever swept through cities, decimated armies, disrupted trade, and killed with terrifying speed. Physicians blamed contaminated air, clothing, bedding, and sewage - but couldn’t explain how the disease spread from one victim to another.
Cuban physician Carlos Juan Finlay was a fervent Catholic. One day, after caring for a Carmelite priest gravely ill with yellow fever, Finlay returned home exhausted. While praying before bedtime, a mosquito circling his head, the thought came to him: Could it be that mosquitoes are transmitting yellow fever from one person to another?
In 1881 he proposed the idea, and many scientists laughed at it. But after years of careful observation and experimentation, Dr. Finlay was vindicated: yellow fever is indeed transmitted from person to person by a certain mosquito now known as Aedes aegypti.
Armed with this knowledge, public-health officials began draining standing water, destroying mosquito larvae, screening buildings, and isolating patients from mosquitoes - practices eventually applied to other mosquito-borne diseases and which have spared countless lives.