George Washington Carver (1864-1943). Carver was an agricultural chemist of international fame and prestige. He introduced hundreds of uses for the peanut, soybean, pecan and sweet potatoe. His research revolutionized the Southern economy with crops that replenished the soil. His mother was kidnapped when he was an infant. Carver was raised by his Uncle Moses and Aunt Sue Carver. The poor boy spent much time around the house and in the woods. Carver went to school in Neosho, Missouri, then in Kansas. He graduated from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. He became an accomplished artist and his painting The Yucca received an Honorable Mention at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. He gave up his faculty position at Iowa State College of Agricultural to join Booker T Washington, President of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Carver made many medical discoveries which include a cure for infantile paralysis and Penol. George Washington Carver made over 300 discoveries from peanuts and 118 discoveries from sweet potatoes. His discoveries included cosmetics, face powder, shaving cream, vinegar, cold cream, printer’s ink, salad oil, rubbing oil, infant coffee, leather stains from mahogany to blue, synthetic tapioca and egg yolk, flour, paints, non-toxic colors (from which crayons were created).

George W Carver was personal friends with Henry Ford. He was fascinated with Carver’s method of deriving rubber from milkweed. Ford tried several times to persuade Carver to work with him in business. Carver was committed to helping the poor of the South. Henry Ford built a duplicate of Dr. Carver’s birthplace at his Dearborn Village and a school named George Washington Carver School.

Carver was visited at Tuskegee Institute by Vice President Calvin Coolidge and by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He became confidant and advisors to leaders and scientists throughout the world. Thomas Edison offered him a position with a six figure number but was turned down.

In the summer of 1920, The Young Men’s Christian Association of Blue Ridge, North Carolina invited him to speak at their summer school for southern states. Dr. Willis D. Weatherford, President of Blue Ridge introduced Mr. Carver. George Carver, with his high voice, exclaimed:

“I always look forward to introductions as opportunities to learn something about myself.”

He continued:

“Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, ‘Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?’”
“The Great Creator answered, ‘You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.”
“Then I asked, ‘Please Mr. Creator, tell me what man was made for?’”
“Again the Great Creator replied, ‘You are still asking too much. Cut down on the extent and improve the intent.’”
“So then I asked, ‘Please, Mr. Creator, will you tell me why the peanut was made?’”
“That’s better, but even then it’s infinite. What do you want to know about the peanut?”
“Mr. Creator, can I make milk out of the peanut?”
“What kind of milk do you want? Good Jersey milk or just plain boarding house milk.”
“Good Jersey Milk.”
“And then the Great Creator taught me to take the peanut apart and put it together again. And out of the process have come forth all these products!”

A bottle of good Jersey milk was among the things on the table. Three-and-a-half ounces of peanuts produce a pint of milk or one quart of boardinghouse blue John! In 1921, he accepted the invitation to address the United States Senate Ways and Means Committee in Washington, D.C. concerning the potential uses of peanuts and other new crops. He was initially given ten minutes to speak but enthralled his audience. The chairman declared: “Go ahead Brother. Your time is unlimited.” Carver spoke for an hour and forty-five minutes. At the end of the address, the Chairman of the Committee asked Mr. Carver:

“Dr. Carver, how did you learn all of these things?”
Carver answered:
“From an old book”
“What book?” asked the Senator.
Carver replied, “The Bible.”
The Senator inquired, “Does the Bible tell about peanuts?”
“No, Sir” Dr. Carver replied, “Does the Bible tell about peanuts?”
“No, Sir” Dr. Carter replied. ‘But it tells about the God who made the peanut. I asked Him to show me what to do with the peanut, and He did.”

George Washington Carver named his laboratory God’s Little Workshop and never took a textbook into God’s Workshop. He merely asked God how to perform his experiments. He accepted the invitation of the Women’s Board of Domestic Missions on November 19, 1924 to speak to an audience of 500 people in New York City’s Marble Collegiate Church.

“God is going to reveal to use things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.”

George Carver would lock the door behind him whenever he entered God’s Little Workshop.

“Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.”

George Washington Carver developed a lifelong friendship with Jim Hardwick from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Harry Hardwick was Jim’s brother was the head football coach of the U.S. Naval Academy. Jim visited Tuskegee Institute in 1928 and asked Dr. Carver to share some of his observations about God. Dr. Carver responded:

"As a very small boy exploiting the almost virgin woods of the old Carver place, I had the impression someone had just been there ahead of me. Things were so orderly, so clean, so harmoniously beautiful. A few years later in the same woods I was to understand the meaning of this boyish impression. Because I was practically overwhelmed with the sense of some Great Presence. Not only had someone been there. Someone was there…"

"Years later when I read in the Scriptures, 'In Him we live and move and have our being.' I knew what the writer meant. Never since have I been without this consciousness of the Creator speaking to me…The out of doors has been to me more and more a great cathedral in which God could be continuously spoken to and heard from…"

"Man, who needed a purpose, a mission, to keep him alive, had one. He could be…God’s worker…"

"My attitude toward life was also my attitude toward science. Jesus said one must be born again, must be as a little child. He must let no laziness, no fear, no stubbornness keep him from his duty."

"If he were born again he would see life from such a plane he would have the energy not to be impeded in his duty by these various sidetrackers and inhibitions. My work, my life, must be in the spirit of a little child seeking only to know the truth and follow it."

"My purpose alone must be God’s purpose – to increase the welfare and happiness of His people. Nature will not permit a vacuum. It will be filled with something."

"Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill…"

"With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum and I became an agent. Then the passage, 'I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me,' came to have real meaning."

"As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which I amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there."

"Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again."

"By nature I am a conserver. I have found nature to be a conserver. Nothing is wasted or permanently lost in nature. Things can change their form, but they do not cease to exist."

"After I leave this world I do not believe I am through. God would be a bigger fool than even a man if he did not conserve what seems to be the most important thing he has yet done in the universe. This kind of reasoning may aid the young."

"When you get your grip on the last rung of the ladder and took over the wall as I am now doing you don’t need their proofs. You see. You know you will not die."

George Washington Carver was awarded the Roosevelt Medal in 1939 with this declaration:

“To a scientist humbly seeking the guidance of God and a liberator to men of the white race as well as the black.”

George Washington Carver remarked:

“The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible. ‘In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.’”

Sir David Brewster (1781-1868). In 1817 this Scottish physicist patented his invention of the kaleidoscope. Brewster founded the science of optical mineralogy, involving light polarization. He was the founder and President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

“I shall see Jesus, and that will be grand! … Oh, is it not sad that all are not contented with the beautiful simple plan of salvation – Jesus Christ only - who has done so much for us.”

“Notwithstanding his talents!” That disgusts me: merit for a man to bow his intellect to the Cross! Why, what can the highest intellect on earth do but to bow to God’s Word and God’s mind thankfully?”

“When I find a doctrine plainly stated in the Bible, that is enough, God knows. I can depend on God’s Word. We should not expect in this world to be free from things obscure to us, and beyond our ability to explain” …

“To believe in the Lord Jesus Christ is to live; I trust Him and enjoy His peace.”

Wernher Magnus Maximillian von Braun (1912-1977) “Father of the American Space Program” von Braun was director of NASA and the U.S. guided missile program. He had a PhD from the University of Berlin and eventually developed the V-2 rocket during World War II. He immigrated to the United States in 1945 and became an American citizen in 1955.

“In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible – this grandiose, stirring history of the gradual revelation and unfolding of the moral law- remains in every way an up-to-date book."

"Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil."

"The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. It is no longer enough that we pray that God may be with us on our side. We must learn to pray that we may be on God’s side.”

Wernher von Braun made the following declaration in the forward to Anthology on the Creation and design exhibited in nature:

“Manned space flight is an amazing achievement, but it has opened for mankind thus far only a tiny door for viewing the awesome reaches of space. An outlook through this peephole at the vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the certainty of its Creator.”

“I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advance of science.”

In May of 1974, von Braun declared:

“One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all… The better we understand the intricacies of the universe and all it harbors, the more reason we have found to marvel at the inherent design upon which it is based…”

“To be forced to believe only one conclusion- that everything in the universe happened by chance – would violate the very objectivity of science itself…What random process could produce the brains of a man or the system of the human eye?...”

“They (evolutionists) challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? … They say they cannot visualize a Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron? … What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?”

“It is scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the university was planned rather than happening by chance.”

Robert Boyle (1626-1691). Boyle was the “Father of Modern Chemistry” and a founder of the Royal Society of London. He made significant contributions in physics and chemistry. Among his contributions: he discovered the basic law of gas dynamics; relating gas pressures to temperature and volume. He devoted much of his time to propagate the gospel. He wrote the Boyle Lectures in the field of apologetics proving the Christian religion. Robert Boyle declared:

“Our Savior would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremist of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.”

Robert Boyle, in his work titled Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures, He declared:

“The Books of Scriptures illustrate and expound each other; as in the mariner’s compass, the needle’s extremity, though it seems to point purposely to the north, doth yet at the same time discover both east and west, as distant as they are from it and each other, so do some texts of Scripture guide us to the intelligence of others, for which they are widely distant in the Bible.”

Professor Louis Bounoure, March 8, 1984. I do not know if Professor is a Christian. I quote him because he denies the Darwinian belief in evolution. He was quoted in The Advocate publication and his statement carried considerable credence. He had been the President of Biological Society of Strasbourg and Director of the Strasbourg Zoological Museum. Later he became Director at the French National Centre of Scientific Research. Professor Bounoure declared:

“Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory had helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.”

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans was an English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist and statesman. Sir Francis Bacon was significantly responsible for the formulation and acceptance of the scientific methodology which stressed gathering of data from experimentation and induction rather than through the practice of philosophical deduction promulgated by Aristotle. Sir Francis Bacon assisted in creating and founding the Royal Society of London.

“There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”

“There never was found, in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith. Hence, it clearly appears that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures.”

In The Advancement of Learning, Book II, Sir Francis Bacon stressed:

“But men must know that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on.”

“All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.”

In the treatise Of Atheism, Sir Francis Bacon declared:

“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”

In, Literary and Religious Works of Francis Bacon, Volume II, Sir Francis Bacon declares:

“I believe that the Word of God, whereby His will is revealed, continued in revelation and tradition with Moses; and that the Scriptures were from Moses’ time to the time of the Apostles and Evangelists; in whose ages, after the coming of the Holy Ghost, the teacher of all truth, the book of Scriptures was shut and closed, so as to receive no new addition, and the Church hath no power after the Scriptures to teach or command anything contrary to the written word.”

“I believe that Jesus, the Lord, became flesh a sacrificer and a sacrifice for sin; a satisfaction and price paid to the justice of God; a meriter of Glory and the Kingdom; a pattern of all righteousness a preacher of the Word, which Himself was; a finisher of the ceremonies; a cornerstone to remove the separation between Jew and Gentile; an intercessor for the Church; a Lord of nature in his miracles; a conqueror of death and the power of darkness in His resurrection; and that He fulfilled the whole counsel of God; performing all His sacred offices, and anointing on earth, accomplishing the whole work of the redemption and restitution of man to a state superior to the angels, whereas the state of man by creation was inferior; and reconciled and established all things according to the eternal will of the Father.”

He proclaimed in his work Novum Organum Scientiarum (1620):

“Man by the Fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some parts repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.”

Sir Francis Bacon declared, “To conclude, therefore, let no man speak out of weak conceit of sobriety, or in ill applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works.”

The “book of God’s word” is the Bible and the “book of God’s works” is the world which God has created.

Sir Francis Bacon wrote his Will in 1626.

“I bequeath my soul to God….My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.”

Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1863) was a French electrician and scientific writer. Ampere discovered the relationship between magnetism and electricity. He defined a unit to measure the strength of an electric current. (Amperes equals volts divided by ohms.) Before he died, Ampere wrote on a piece of paper:

“Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human race.”