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It's a list of past scientists who founded modern science.
You can't be critical that they are dead.
There are other lists of living creationist scientists.
Then you can complain if some are dead.
You critics are goofy in the head.

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Now you are free to consider the infinite depth of purpose for everything. No more "mistakes".
- Bible-Believing Scientists of the Past -

What evidence is there that William Herschel, who is on your list, was a 'Bible-believing' Christian? I know that his son John was a devout Christian, and I am willing to accept that William Herschel was a Christian (most people were in his time), but I have never found anything to show that he was a Biblical literalist. In fact, William Herschel reportedly said to the poet Thomas Campbell that he had 'observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the Earth', and John was willing to see 'the days of Creation' as lasting 'many thousand millions of years.'
 
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The scriptures teach that the hills are litterally "everlasting".
You might be thinking that all creationists are young earth creationists, which is not correct.
 
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The scriptures teach that the hills are litterally "everlasting".
You might be thinking that all creationists are young earth creationists, which is not correct.
No, we know better than that. We understand distinctions amongst different kinds of creationists, which is why we scoff at that list.
 
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No, we know better than that. We understand distinctions amongst different kinds of creationists, which is why we scoff at that list.
no time for scoff..
 
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The scriptures teach that the hills are litterally "everlasting".
You might be thinking that all creationists are young earth creationists, which is not correct.

Your list of Bible-Believing Scientists of the Past comes from the Institute for Creation Research. The 'core principles' of the ICR - Foundational Principles - include

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All things in the universe were created and made by God in the six literal days of the Creation Week described in Genesis 1:1-2:3, and confirmed in Exodus 20:8-11.

From this, it appears that the ICR is a young-earth and young-universe creationist organisation, and therefore that it would hardly have included old-earth or old-universe creationists in its list of 'Bible-believing scientists'. Either the ICR has evidence (which I should like to see) that William Herschel believed in a young universe, contrary to his reported statement to Thomas Campbell, or its list is designed to give the impression that scientists, such as Herschel, who were Christians, but not necessarily young-earth creationists or anti-evolutionists, would have agreed with the core principles of the ICR.
 
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