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   From: srweiss1@comcast.net   
      
   On 1/18/2026 5:58 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 18/01/2026 10:51 am, 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?   
   >   
   > There's the problem ....   
   >   
   > Quote   
   > Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia   
   > in modern-day Turkey.  The settlement was inhabited from around 9500   
   > BCE to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.   
   > End Quote   
   >   
   > .... and, as we all known, Adam and Eve where the first of Humanity   
   > and they were only about 6,000B.C., "Gobekli Tepe" could not have   
   > existed.   
   >   
   > Right, Binky??   
     I have never heard a reason for how all of these dinosaurs bones that   
   people keep finding fits into the Bible story either.   
      
   Stan   
      
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