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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10kf4a3$2923p$1@dont-email.me>,   
   The True Doctor wrote:   
   >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?   
   >   
      
   so how did Google Gemini come up with Newton's religious views?   
      
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