imagine if newton didn’t live without the risks of being exposed as a skeptic and burned as a witch. we’d have been space faring between stars 200 years ago
“imagine if newton didn’t live without the risks of being exposed as a skeptic and burned as a witch. “
You mean like the skeptic Voltaire, who lived at the same time and yet mysteriously lived a long and irreligious life? I guess no one could find the matches.
But then skepticism has absolutely nothing to do with Newton anyway. Newton had a fascination with Christian prophecy and fully half of his extensive writings deal with the subject.
One thing I enjoy about amateur atheists is that they will say the stupidest things as long as it conforms to their prejudices.