The surprising faith of scientists

Equations representing many of the scientists in the book

"The surprising faith of scientists" is the tentative title of a book manuscript just submitted. 

The book stems from a discovery I made some time after I had completed my university studies where I had studied theories named after the likes of Pascal, Ampere, Faraday, Maxwell, and Kelvin. The surprising thing was that all of these were devout Christians. It would turn out that there were many more of them.

In this book, biographies of 21 scientists are collected. That includes both their science and their life in general, including how they expressed their faith in God. My coauthor Sven Aasmundtveit has added some thoughts as he was reflecting on the lives of each one of them

Some of the important figures in the development of electromagnetics and radio are included. That makes one wonder if the discovery of these invisible waves that propagate in a vacuum, i.e. without a medium, requires a special sense of the invisible. These are key persons covered in the book: 

• André-Marie Ampère and electrical current
• Michael Faraday, electrical and magnetic forces
• William Thomson - Lord Kelvin, absolute zero temperature
• James Clerk Maxwell, electricity and magnetism united

Others of a more general science interest are:

• Johannes Kepler and the elliptical orbits of the planets
• Blaise Pascal and the unit for measuring pressure, 
• Isaac Newton who first understood gravity
• Leonhard Euler, the productive mathematician
• Georges Lemaître, the first who thought about Big Bang
• Allan Sandage and the outer boundary of the universe

The book will appear in Norwegian first, and hopefully in English at some later time. It is a follow-up of my book from 2021: "The imagined conflict. On science and God" (Den innbilte konflikten. Om naturvitenskap og Gud), which I hope to publish in English soon.