His scientific fame notwithstanding, Newton's study of the Bible and of the early Church Fathers were among his greatest passions. He devoted more time to the study of the Scriptures, the Fathers, and to Alchemy than to science, and said, "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
2007-07-28 01:13:42 · 9 answers · asked by turntable 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In my view, it is one thing to have faith in God, to use this faith to help others, become a better person, to guide your own life. It is quite another thing to use religion as a club to elevate yourself in your own opinion to a person with all the answers, superior to others, and dedicated to telling everyone how supremely great you are.
Isaac Newton was a scientist. This did not mean he did not have religious faith. It is possible to be a Scientist and believe in God. The current Evangelical rejection of Science is ignorance used as a political weapon.
Newton was right about the church. Early Christianity seems to have been a beautiful, natural movement. Then the church was formed and corruption reigned. The hierarchy of churches is often corrupt to this day. When you contemplate the use of the Rack and other tortures for presumed heretics, the neglect of the Jews during Hitler's reign, the atrocity of covering up pedophilia, among other issues, it is easy to see that power does corrupt.
I believe that Newton was, first and foremost, a Scientist. He studied the Bible, disliked organized religion, and came to his own conclusions.
2007-08-05 00:40:16 · answer #1 · answered by Me, Too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows. Newton was very smart, but very weird. He could have gone either way. He spent most of his later life on alchemy and wouldn't drop it even when the evidence pointed to things just not really working that way.
I would like to think he was a scientist first, but that is just a shot in the dark.
2007-07-28 01:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It kinda bites me all this stuff. Science v Religion, science could be the fact of what is, but equally could be the discovery by man of a god created system i.e. that gravity is what it is but maybe god created gravity. Evolution maybe the way we evolved into man through apes, but you could also say that was the way god designed it. How long is a god day, it could be 50 billion years, we determine it merely as one rotation of the Earth. Typical of 'man' to reckon everything on a 'man' level. There are equally as many contradictions in the bible as there are in science and at the end of the day neither are totally proven or disproved. It is a matter for the individual to believe or disbelieve.
2007-07-28 01:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by Zappster (Deep Thunker) 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He'd be a good solid scientist, religious, and call Creationists flagrant liars for ignoring massive amounts of obvious evidence in order to defend a doctrine that cannot coexist with reality.
2007-07-28 02:54:34 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He'd probably be a scientist who believed in God.
This isn't as rare as the answers on these pages seem to imply. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
2007-07-28 01:19:09 · answer #5 · answered by pluginmaybe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dude, he'd be all. Evolutionist, Creationist whatever. He'd be really interested and he'd discover a lot things. Newton was a smart scientist.
2007-07-28 01:21:53 · answer #6 · answered by JD 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He would be a believer in God. Not necessarily a bible believer. But definitely he will never be an atheist...
2007-07-28 04:56:22 · answer #7 · answered by space lover 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Intelligent design is a load of ****. Typical American bull.
2007-08-04 06:44:06 · answer #8 · answered by ivy_la_sangrienta 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
all of them
2007-08-04 23:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by jammal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋