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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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As he himself said in his correspondence, he knew that God had ordained the universe according to laws and he saw his job as trying to discover and describe those laws.

The Principia begins with the assumption of an ordered universe in which consistent laws can be discovered.

This assumption was based on his theological convictions.

55 posted on 08/04/2005 1:35:06 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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