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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10kgafu$7tjj$1@solani.org>, did srweiss1@comcast.net   
   deliver unto us this message:   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   A Babylonian king is said to have reigned for twelve thousand years.   
   Mainstream historians believe that these ancient people simply didn't   
   record the names of old kings unless they really stood out and made a   
   difference. If they didn't, it was just lumped into the last standout   
   king's reign.   
      
   I guess that would be equivalent to saying Obama was President for 12   
   years, though for 4 of them it was really Biden.   
      
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