Who: Louis Jean Pasteur
What: Father of Modern Microbiology
When: December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895
Where: Arbois, France

Little was known about preventative medicine and the causes of disease in the days of Louis Pasteur. Today, we owe all the discoveries in the fields of microbiology and immunology to his work.

British lawmakers have formally approved the use of animal-human hybrids for stem-cell research after months of bitter debate between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a group of secular scientists against religious leaders and pro-life advocates.

Professor Richard Dawkins has once again shown that atheists (or “secular humanists,” as some have dubbed themselves) live in a kind of bubble—one in which history can be skewed, and only their own definitions matter.

One argument that secular humanists and neo-Darwinists can’t stand is when their blind belief in, and zealous defense of, the evolutionary interpretation of unobservable past processes is labeled as “religion.” Yet one San Francisco artist, who claims to not practice any organized form of religion, has gone a step further by producing his very own Temple of Science.

Who: Gregor Johann Mendel
What: Father of Modern Genetics
When: July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884
Where: Heinzendorf, Hapsburg Empire (Modern-Day Czech Republic)