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Creation Day One: "Let there be light!"
Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, the two men who dedicated their lives to understanding the nature of light, came from very different backgrounds. Faraday was English; Maxwell was Scottish. Faraday was the son of a blacksmith of limited means; Maxwell’s father had
inherited a substantial estate and passed his inheritance on to his son. Faraday had only a basic, grade-school education; Maxwell had the finest education available. Faraday was one of the most popular scientific lecturers of his day; Maxwell was a quiet man and seldom spoke in public . Faraday 's math skills were limited to the simplest algebra ; Maxwell was one of the finest mathematicians of his time. Unfortunately, the one experience they did have in common gets totally overlooked by both science and society: complex mysteries on the nature of light. God used Maxwell's particular gift of applying mathematical reasoning to Michael Faraday's visual insight that the same electromagnetic energy that flows through a electric wire can also travel through empty space as waves. One of the first things that Maxwell did with his equations was to calculate the speed of an electromagnetic wave and found that the speed of an electromagnetic wave was almost identical to the speed of light. Based on this discovery, Maxwell also propose d that a photon of light was an electromagnetic wave based on two specific properties: Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell were committed Christians passionately seeking God's understanding to help them unlock the
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