[BrandtMichaels]

2 observations.

1.) Lumping Newton in with the ‘oddballs’ that were the ‘enlightenment’ imho they only included Newton to give some added weight to their deluded thinking.

2.) Although not of the ‘enlightenment’ group, the scientist most consider 2nd only to Newton, Albert Einstein, also had
a similar quote regarding science and religion.

Now let’s see how did that one go...

[betty boop]

2.) Although not of the ‘enlightenment’ group, the scientist most consider[ed] 2nd only to Newton, Albert Einstein, also had a similar quote regarding science and religion.... Now let’s see how did that one go....

What Newton and Einstein had in common — "spiritually"/metaphysically speaking, if you can pardon me for using this language — is that both recognized that at the very foundation of the Universe, there is Mind and Will....

That is, pace Heraclitus: The "most beautiful cosmos" is not "a garbage heap strewn at random."

Thanks so much for writing, BrantMichaels!

[Oztrich Boy]

1.) Lumping Newton in with the ‘oddballs’ that were the ‘enlightenment’ imho they only included Newton to give some added weight to their deluded thinking.

A couple of those 'oddballs' write the 'deluded thinking' of The Second Treatise of Civil Government and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Without those you don't have America, or indeed what we call "Western civilization"