Walter Charleton (1619-1707) was an active early member of the Royal Society and also served as President of the Royal College of Physicians. In his religious writings he sought diligently to find divine purpose in every act of nature. He defended the Biblical miracles, as well as creation and the flood.
Excerpted from Men of Science, Men of God by Henry M. Morris. Copyright 1982, 1985 by Henry M. Morris. Used by permission.