“William McIlhagga:
Faith don’t power my mobile phone, people. It didn’t get made by imagining that god pushes the electromagnetic waves around.”
Your cell phone is the direct result of one man’s faith. A guy by the name of James Clerk Maxwell.
Your phone communicates via the use of electomagnetic waves. And there are four simply expressed equations that describe those waves, called Maxwell’s equations. They’re named after Maxwell who discovered them. He looked at light and didn’t understand how it worked. But he believed that since God was logical and not whimsical and since God created light, that therefore there must be a logical (mathematical) means of describing light. And he also went so far as to believe that God created us to look at creation and learn more about God. So Maxwell’s theology convinced him that light had to have some logical (mathematical) structure and that it had to be discoverable by man. And so he devoted himself to finding out the logic that underlies the wave nature light. Guess what? He found exactly what he thought he’d be able to find. And almost all disciplines of electrical engineer are directly built upon Maxwell’s work. 
So, no, the electromagnetic waves which allow your phone to function are not pushed by God. But Maxwell believed that God created mathematical laws which govern the universe, including said electromagnetic waves. And he discovered those laws. So, what has atheism contributed to science? (And I mean atheism, not agnosticism. Agnostic scientists I can understand. Atheistic scientists, not so much.)
And, yes, I am a Christian and an electrical engineer. And I do have the deepest respect for Maxwell and men like him.
