In preparing for tomorrow’s sermon, I began to think about people who were called fathers. The reason is that we are looking at Abraham: The Father of a Nation. I was going to do some research on it, but I found a great research team right under my nose. While I was at work today, my three children spent that time doing my research. Here are the results from the JARs research team about fathers. How many did you know? I know there are quite a few I didn’t even know.

Psychology
Noam Chomsky – Father of modern linguistics (study of modern languages)
Sigmund Freud – Father of Psychoanalysis
John B. Watson – Father of Behaviorism
Wihelm Wundt – Father of Psychology

Politics
James Madison – Father of the Constitution
Karl Marx – Father of Communism
James Monroe – Father of the Monroe Doctrine and modern US policy
George Washington – Father of our country

Math
Euclid – Father of Geometry
Hipparchus – Father of Trigonometry
Isaac Newton – Father of Calculus
Pythagoras – Father of the Pythagorean Theorem

Inventor
Alexander Graham Bell – Father of the telephone
Willis Carrier – Father of air conditioning
Thomas Edison – Father of the light bulb
Henry Ford – Father of the automobile
Orville and Wilbur Wright – Fathers of the airplane

Science
Aristotle – Father of the Scientific Method
Albert Einstein – Father of the theory of relativity
Galilio Galilei – Father of modern astronomy
Michael Faraday – Father of electromagnetism
Ottto Hahn – Father of nuclear chemistry
Hippocrates – Father of medicine
Gregor Mendel – Father of modern genetics
Ernest Rutherford – Father of nuclear physic

Literature
Mark Twain – Father of American Literature
Horace Walpole – Father of Gothic Literature

Church
Saint Augustine of Hippo – Father of the Reformation on teaching of salvation and grace
Luther Lee and Orange Scott – Fathers of the Wesleyan Church
Martin Luther – Father of the Protestant Reformation
William Tyndale – Father of the first English Bible

Fine Arts
Aechylus and Sophoceles – Father of Musical Theater
Jacques Copeau and Konstantin Stanislavsky – Fathers of the acting theory
Joseph Haydn – Father of the symphony

Internet
Sergey Brin and Larry Page – Fathers of Google
Vint Cerf – Father of the Internet

Warfare
John Paul Jones – Father of the US Navy
Fritz Haber – Father of chemical warfare
Robert Oppenheimer – Father of the atomic bomb
Sun Tzo – Father of warfare

Miscellaneous
Thomas Jefferson – Father of UVA
George Lucas – Father of Star WarsThomas Peebles – Father of Cheerleading

Thank you to the JARs research team for a job well done. You made dad proud!!!