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Ronly Bonly Jones;GulliverSwift

GS>But wasn't Newton pretty devout, too?>>>

RBJ>Nope. In point of fact he was a pagan alchemist.

37 posted on 12/04/2003 1:54:21 PM MST by Ronly Bonly Jones

Even a cursory glance at his Biography would yield:

"Issac Newton was a deeply religious man"

VII RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AND PERSONALITY Newton also wrote on Judaeo-Christian prophecy, whose decipherment was essential, he thought, to the understanding of God. His book on the subject, which was reprinted well into the Victorian Age, represented lifelong study. Its message was that Christianity went astray in the 4th century AD, when the first Council of Nicaea propounded erroneous doctrines of the nature of Christ. The full extent of Newton's unorthodoxy was recognized only in the present century: but although a critic of accepted Trinitarian dogmas and the Council of Nicaea, he possessed a deep religious sense, venerated the Bible and accepted its account of creation. In late editions of his scientific works he expressed a strong sense of God's providential role in nature.
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html

a bondslave to the Christ

chuck

GS>But wasn't Newton pretty devout, too?>>>

RBJ>Nope. In point of fact he was a pagan alchemist.

37 posted on 12/04/2003 1:54:21 PM MST by Ronly Bonly Jones

Even a cursory glance at his Biography would yield:

"Issac Newton was a deeply religious man"
>>>

Yes. That doesn't make "the last sorcerer" any less guilty of blasphemy in his alchemical researches. Some of his biographers try to fob off this inconvenient factoid as an "attempt to study the universe using the tools he had on hand," but it was in fact an attempt to use magic to make gold out of trash: an abomination to both scientists and the religious.