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   From: srweiss1@comcast.net   
      
   On 1/17/2026 6:51 PM, The Doctor wrote:   
   > In article <10kgr83$898e$1@solani.org>,   
   > StanWeiss   wrote:   
   >> On 1/17/2026 2:00 PM, The True Melissa wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >> Sometime mainstream historians have their own ideas, and get shock when   
   >> something comes along and upsets their apple cart. Like man back then   
   >> couldn't have built it, but yet there is Gobeklitepe.   
   >>   
   >> Stan   
   >>   
   > Gobeklitepe?   
   >   
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   My you really don't much about history.   
      
   Stan   
      
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