Of course Maxweel believed in God. He also believed that EM waves were propagated by a mysterious substance called “ether”.
Neither God, nor ether, is referenced in the Maxwell equations. The Maxwell equations are these:
Electric fields can be produced by electric charges
There are no “magnetic charges” to produce magnetic fields
Electric fields can be produced by changing magnetic fields
Magnetic fields can be produced by electric currents and changing electric fields
The only quantities in the Maxwell equations are currents, charges, fields, and properties of space.
Einstein USED Maxwell’s equations to prove that there was no such thing as ether. Maxwell’s equations did not cease to be valid.
He assumed that waves needed something to wave in–that something was called ether. But that assumption was not necessary to his theory.
And neither is God. The Maxwell equations still work in the absence of ether and gods.
Pythagoras believed that beans were poisonous and worshipped numbers. What has those beliefs to do with the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem?
