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   From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
      
   On 16/01/2026 16:08, The Doctor wrote:   
   > Newton's Personal Biblical Views   
   > Sir Isaac Newton was himself a deeply religious man who   
   > spent more time studying the Bible than science. He believed:   
   >   
      
   Called himself a scientist but was ignorant enough to believe that Adam   
   and his decedents up to Noah lived from between 900 and 700 years each.   
   Couldn't figure out that the bible refers to these ages in lunar months   
   not regular years, despite Newton having read Piny the Elder (since   
   Pliny's Natural History is what Newton based his own Natural History on)   
   who explains all this to him. Why didn't Pliny come up with Mavity   
   instead of Newton. Obviously unlike Newton, Pliny was not Indian.   
      
   Another ignoramus who also read and quoted Pliny was Eusebius who also   
   believed the same nonsense despite attacking Roman historians for giving   
   their kings reigns of up to 400 years.   
      
   > The laws of nature were established by God and reflect His wisdom and power.   
   >   
      
   Then how can God exist before he established the laws of nature in a vacuum?   
      
   > He viewed his scientific discoveries as a way to "think God's thoughts   
   > after Him," revealing the underlying order of the creation.   
   >   
      
   If it's all down to mathematics when why did Newton need a god anyway?   
      
   All you need to do is calculate the value of Pi and there's God for you.   
      
   > He wrote extensively on biblical prophecy, particularly   
   > the books of Daniel and Revelation.   
      
   Did he manage to figure out that Daniel was written during the   
   Hellenistic period and therefore was concocted after the events that   
   Daniel is supposed to predict occurred, most of which dealt with battles   
   fought between the Ptolemys and Seleucids? Did he also understand that   
   Revelation concerns the Medeao-Persian conquest of Babylon and Cyrus   
   promise to rebuild Jerusalem for the Jews and send them back to it,   
   which occurred about 600 years before it was written?   
      
   Are Newton's religious works actually authentic or are they forgeries?   
      
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