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Robert Boyle
Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, Robert Boyle believed the attributes of God can be seen by studying nature scientifically and that His wisdom is observed in creation.
God's Works
"When…I study the book of nature I find myself oftentimes reduced to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are Thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast Thou made them all!"
[Boyle, R. 1660. Seraphic Love, 265.] Read more...
On Chance
"…and sure he must be very dull, or very strongly prejudiced, who shall think it reasonable to attribute such admirable contrivances, and such regular conducts, as are observable in the corporeal worlds, rather to chance (which is no proper cause at all) than to a most intelligent Being, from which the most curious productions may well be expected."
[Boyle, R. 1725. The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq: Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine, 117.] Read more...
Seeing God's Wisdom
“God’s wisdom and skill is more displayed in making so many various bodies act according to their particular designations…than barely in causing bodies to act, appositely, for ends to themselves unknown.”
[Boyle, R. 1725. The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq: Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine, 171.] Read more...