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To: metacognative
That's a terrible accusation at Isaac Newton!

He was probably the greatest single genius of scientific history, but Old Isaac was indeed a nutcase. If at no other time, he went pretty far off for a few years from heavy metal poisoning, the result of his alchemical experiments. Even before then, his obsession with alchemy, occultism, and (from the viewpoint of orthodox Anglicanism) heresy was a bit odd.

Your attempt to wrap yourself in him is of course wrong. He wasn't an antievolutionist Holy Warrior Idiot. It's anybody's guess what his views would have been had he been born in 1950, but he was born too early to be a militant crusader against the Evil Darwin.

203 posted on 01/18/2005 1:47:42 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro

Why would you call Darwin evil? He had an idea a hundred and fifty years ago. Modern scientific facts don't support him.


214 posted on 01/18/2005 2:27:22 PM PST by metacognative (follow the gravy...)
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To: VadeRetro

Why would you call Darwin evil? He had an idea a hundred and fifty years ago. Modern scientific facts don't support him. But some people [maybe you] have made his idea a Dogma


215 posted on 01/18/2005 2:28:35 PM PST by metacognative (follow the gravy...)
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