Newton was no deist, but, as he denied the deity of Christ, he was not
orthodox. As an example of his priorities, it is said that the volume of his
theological notes exceed those of his scientific ones. How many of us can
say the same?
respectfully
Jonathan
"Arthur V. Chadwick" wrote:
> At 08:46 AM 12/28/2000 -0600, James Mahaffy wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >In a recent post Moorad Alexanian said,
> >"The foundation of modern science was laid down by devout Christians
> >(Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, Planck, etc.) who studied nature to
> >know more about its Creator."
> >
> >Maybe a philosopher of science can help me - but I was under the
> >impression that this was the time of British natural theology when the
> >paradigm was that the world cam into being by a God and you were finding
> >and his laws etc. in your investigation. Even non Christians worked in
> >that framework. Weren't some of these chaps more deists than folks that
> >believed in Christ as their Savior?
>
> Newton certainly was no deist. He wrote commentaries on Daniel and
> Revelation that are still awesome in their insights.
> Art
> http://geology.swau.edu
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