No man knows, and you can’t figure it out using anything, since only the Father knows.
If I recall, Newton postulated three or four dates as possibilities.
I find it rather ironic that a man that prcise with everything else could be that imprecise with a prediction of the date of the Apocalypse. And still be taken seriously!
Then again, my agnostic streak says the Apocalypse is all BS anyway, so, perhpas it’s not so surprising at all.
One has to define Science first. The definition is a moving target, as the definition commonly accepted (involving observability, reproduceability and falsifiability (is that a word?)) are “splained” differently when discussing evolution.
there’s a war between dawkins and reality. his arguments are woefully ignorant of theology, so his claims that religion and science are at odds are hardly credible.
Should link to yesterday’s thread. It wouldn’t bother old Newton after 300 years to have his threads combined.
I dunno. Newton probably created science, but he was a strange,strange man.
Last I checked, Newton was unavailable for comment.
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I’ve read his religious works— and there are quite a few, and he was a genius. He paid attention to detail, and he studied before he spoke. Although I agree, no man can know the exact date, we can, however get very close. Jesus said when you see the sky is red, you know a storm is coming, so we can be in the ballpark. Let’s just say I respect newton, and I’d like to see his proofs on these calculations
Totally.
So the article is arguing what? That a major scientist who dabbled in silliness on the side proves that the silliness isn’t silly?
What IS the point?
>>The atheist case relies on a few key episodes, mostly involving Darwin and Galileo. In my forthcoming book What’s So Great About Christianity I will show that these episodes have been ideologically manipulated, and that the “lessons” drawn from them are largely fictitious.<<
There were 700 years of inquisitions - saying or reading the wrong thing could bring imprisonment, torture or death.
There are thousands and thousands of cases of Church persecution. As Europe was decrying slavery in America, the Church still forcibly kept Jews in ghettos with few rights.
This guy is nuts if he thinks he going to show that science was never a target. He’d have a much better case to show it was only one target among many and not the most persecuted. That was reserved for women who showed independence but heresy in all forms was pursued with vicious, unChristian fervor.
2060 coincides with the prophet Gore’s predictions; that’s scary!
Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.Newton Papers Reveal Apocalypse CalculationThree-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible - exhibited this week for the first time - lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist.
by Matti Friedman
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Isaac Newton saw end of world in 2060
Times of India | 6/18/07 | AP
Posted on 06/17/2007 10:26:12 PM EDT by voletti
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851893/posts
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There is nothing in the least surprising that Newton was religious; nor that some historic religious figures strongly encouraged scientific pursuits.
On the other hand, note how the same Socialists who have sought to curb religious observance and belief, have distorted the sciences that relate to the nature of man, in their promotion of such insane goals as World Government, and immigration policies which deliberately undermine the prevailing culture in Western lands. (No! Kennedy, Bush, Lindsey Graham and company are not atheists! But they have bought, 'hook, line and sinker,' the sham socialist science, which treats all peoples as basically interchangeable--creatures of their social environment, which the Communists, Social Democrats and Nazis, all believed they could manipulate to actually change the breed--in other words, recreate man in a new Socialist image.)
William Flax
there’s no doubt that Isaac Newton would be a Creationist today.