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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10khh1d$32bf2$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Your Name wrote:   
   >On 2026-01-18 01:49:07 +0000, StanWeiss said:   
   >> 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?   
   >>   
   >> My you really don't much about history.   
   >>   
   >> Stan   
   >   
   >He "don't much about" anything at all. ;-)   
   >   
   >Of course, Göbekli Tepe is from at least 9500BC, which contradicts the   
   >village idiot's Bible nonsense that claims the Earth was created only   
   >about 5500BC. Of course that date itself is also contradicted by some   
   >"experts" who think Adam and Eve were created somewhere "between 55,000   
   >and 120,000 years ago".   
   >   
   >Just yet more proof of the silliness and contradictions of religions.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Too bad you contradict yourself way too many times YN.   
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