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To: Mylo
Isaac Newton presupposed supernatural agency.

I know I'm biased, but I always feel he contributed in some slight way to science.

14 posted on 08/04/2005 12:57:19 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

"Isaac Newton presupposed supernatural agency.
...I always feel he contributed in some slight way to science"

but he's a dead white guy !


45 posted on 08/04/2005 1:17:48 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: wideawake

Interesting. I have read Newton's theorems on universal gravitational attraction and didn't see where he said that the attraction was caused, influenced, or affected by a supernatural agency.


48 posted on 08/04/2005 1:23:18 PM PDT by Mylo ("Those without a sword should sell their cloak and buy one" Jesus of Nazareth)
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To: wideawake

Misleading at best. Newton personally believed in God, but nowhere in any of Newton's scientific work is God or any other supernatural agency necessary. The laws of motion make no reference to anything supernatural. The law of gravity similarly makes no such reference. Even Newton's discredited ideas on optics make no such references. Like all scientific work, there is nothing in there about the supernatural, since, by definition, a supernatural explanation cannot be tested and falsified.


421 posted on 08/05/2005 7:04:54 AM PDT by stremba
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