Many famous scientists were creationists (Talk.Origins)

Claim CA114:

There have been many famous scientists who believed in special creation in the past. (Talk.Origins then goes on to list about thirty scientists who were creationists).

Source: Morris, Henry M. 1982. Bible-believing scientists of the past. Impact 103 (Jan.), http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=185

CreationWiki response:

I must say that I have my doubts that Talk.Origins has done enough research on each scientists to know as much as he claims to know about them in his arguments.

If Talk.Origins thinks he has addressed every argument against evolution, he is sorely mistaken. And CreationWiki has clearly shown that many of the arguments that Talk.Origins attempts to refute are indeed valid.

Three points:

1. The theory of evolution is not a modern idea. The ancient Greeks first proposed a form of it in the 7th century B.C. [1] 2. The argument "they didn't know any better" doesn't fly, since these claims are often made to destroy notions that creationists don't "do" science or are intellectually inferior to evolutionists. 3. Darwin had no field. He wasn't even a scientist, let alone a knowledgeable biologist.

Again, evolution is quite an ancient idea. Evolution was definitely proposed more than 200 years ago.

By TO's definition, any scientist that accepts creation is irrelevant.

According to TO, creationists 200 years ago could use the scientific method, but none of them can today. Perhaps, however, these scientists serve as an example that one does not need to always assume naturalistic explanations to be a good scientist.

Since Mark Isaak is not a Christian, Christians should feel free to (and are pretty much obligated to) ignore his philosophical views. Isaak really has no business telling us what Christians should and should not believe.

According to TO, "many" amounts to three out of about thirty. And again, I seriously doubt TO has done enough research to know this, considering that he cites a grand total of zero sources in support of his claims.

Muitos cientistas famosos foram criacionistas (Talk.Origins)