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To: betty boop

Jeepers Betty, Newton rejected most of what modern churchgoers accept. His religion was close to Deism. He rejected the Trinity and divine intervention in the world. He spent as much time dabbling in alchemy as he did in the things for which he is remembered.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.


272 posted on 09/01/2006 11:59:45 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138; Alamo-Girl; Virginia-American; hosepipe
His religion was close to Deism. He rejected the Trinity and divine intervention in the world.

If this is as you say, then please tell me js1138, why Newton's fundamental conception of God was "the Lord of Life, with His creatures." And the sensorium Dei -- which I imagine to be a universal field -- as facilitating the point of contact between God and His creation?

There is NO WAY that Newton was a Deist. Though possibly his friend (and critic) Leibniz was a proto-Deist.

278 posted on 09/01/2006 12:05:39 PM PDT by betty boop (Character is destiny. -- Heraclitus)
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