I have heard an atheistic scientist make the claim once that there has never been a Christian who was a real scientist.  Let's examine this claim.  What types of men founded our current sciences?  Let's take a quick look at some creationist and Christian scientists:

Louis Agassiz - father of glacial science. He is also counted as a credible zoologist, geologist and a pioneer of paleontology.  He believed in a divine Creator.
William Foxwell Albright - a leading archeologist of this century.   He began his career as a skeptic but his many archeological finds convinced him of the Bible's accuracy.
Charles Babbage - credited for creating the computer.  He invented the speedometer, the principles for the analytic engine.
Francis Bacon - founder of the scientific method.
Roger Bacon - the first to recognize the laws of nature.  He lived in the thirteenth century and his writings claimed the earth was a sphere (the scientific world believed it was flat during this time) and he believed in the future man would travel through the air.
John Bartram - he was the first American botanist.
Sir Charles Bell - one of the greatest anatomists.  He greatly advanced our understanding by mapping the brain and nervous system.
Robert Boyle - one of the founders of modern chemistry.  He discovered how air passes sound; originated Boyle's law which explains how volume of gas is inversely proportional to the pressure.  He also transformed alchemy into chemistry and distinguishing mixtures from compounds.
George Cuvier - founder of paleontology and comparative anatomy.  He separated the animal kingdom into 4 categories including vertebrate, mollusk, articulate and radiate.
There are dozens more, but you get the point.
Following is a more completed list.  If you take time to read you will see that these creation scientists have done more to promote science than evolution will ever accomplish.  When the mind is free to explore God's creation there are no boxes to limit thinking.  IBM is in the process of developing a 100 million dollar super computer called Blue Gene.  The purpose of this massive project is to try to calculate the mathematically incomprehensible evolutionary model.  This effort to prove random chance without intelligence is the very reason that evolutionists have limited contributions to scientific advancement.  What could these scientists accomplish if they didn't spin their wheels trying to create a box that keeps God out of the equation?
  • Gerald E. Aardsma (physicist and radiocarbon dating)
  • Louis Agassiz (helped develop the study of glacial geology and of ichthyology)
  • Charles Babbage (helped develop science of computers / developed actuarial tables and the calculating machine)
  • Francis Bacon (developed the Scientific Method)
  • Robert Boyle (helped develop sciences of chemistry and gas dynamics)
  • Wernher von Braun (pioneer of rocketry and space exploration)
  • David Brewster (helped develop science of optical mineralogy)
  • Melvin Alonzo Cook (physical chemist, Nobel Prize nominee)
  • Georges Cuvier (helped develop sciences of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology)
  • Humphry Davy (helped develop science of thermokinetics)
  • Henri Fabre (helped develop science of insect entomology)
  • Michael Faraday (helped develop science of electromagnetics / developed the Field Theory / invented the electric generator)
  • Ambrose Fleming (helped develop science of electronics / invented thermionic valve)
  • Joseph Henry (invented the electric motor and the galvanometer / discovered self-induction)
  • William Herschel (helped develop science of galactic astronomy / discovered double stars / developed the Global Star Catalog)
  • D. Russell Humphreys (award-winning physicist)
  • James P. Joule (developed reversible thermodynamics)
  • Johann Kepler (helped develop science of physical astronomy / developed the Ephemeris Tables)
  • Carolus Linnaeus (helped develop sciences of taxonomy and systematic biology / developed the Classification System)
  • Joseph Lister (helped develop science of antiseptic surgery)
  • Matthew Maury (helped develop science of oceanography/hydrography)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (helped develop the science of electrodynamics)
  • Gregor Mendel (founded the modern science of genetics)
  • Samuel F. B. Morse (invented the telegraph)
  • Isaac Newton (helped develop science of dynamics and the discipline of calculus / father of the Law of Gravity / invented the reflecting telescope)
  • Blaise Pascal (helped develop science of hydrostatics / invented the barometer)
  • Louis Pasteur (helped develop science of bacteriology / discovered the Law of Biogenesis / invented fermentation control / developed vaccinations and immunizations)
  • William Ramsay (helped develop the science of isotopic chemistry / discovered inert gases)
  • John Ray (helped develop science of biology and natural science)
  • Lord Rayleigh (helped develop science of dimensional analysis)
  • Bernhard Riemann (helped develop non-Euclidean geometry)
  • James Simpson (helped develop the field of gynecology / developed the use of chloroform)
  • Nicholas Steno (helped develop the science of stratigraphy)
  • George Stokes (helped develop science of fluid mechanics)
  • William Thompson (Lord Kelvin) (helped develop sciences of thermodynamics and energetics / invented the Absolute Temperature Scale / developed the Trans-Atlantic Cable)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (helped develop science of hydraulics)
  • Rudolf Virchow (helped develop science of pathology)
  • John Woodward (helped develop the science of paleontology)