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   From: srweiss1@comcast.net   
      
   On 1/16/2026 11:48 PM, 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?   
   >   
   Doesn't the Sumerian King List, have some of them living for thousands   
   of years?   
      
   Stan   
      
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