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**addisonnicogel** · 05-01-2011, 08:10 AM

Thanks a lot for starting a thread on an interesting topic. After a quick Google search , I found the following great quotes.

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http://faithwellgrounded.org/apologe...on-creationist
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" For instance, I'll be quoting about Newton from "The Soul of Science", pg 72, quotes cited in original.

Yet Newton himself was neither a deist nor a rationalist. He saw in the mechanical order of the world evidence for something *beyond* the mechanical world-- a living and intelligent Creator. In *General Scholium*, he argues that

"this most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

And in *Optiks*, he writes that the business of science is to "deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." In Newton's eyes, the major benefit of science is religious and moral. It shows us "what is the first cause, what power he has over us, and what benefits we receive from him," so that "our duty towards him, as well as that towards one another will appear to us by the light of nature."

Moreover, the motive for much of Newton's scientific work was apologetical, a fact widely recognized in his own day. Roger Cotes, in his preface to the second edition of Newton's *Principia*, wrote that the book "will be the safest protection against the attacks of atheists, and nowhere more surely than from this quiver can one draw missiles against the band of godless men."

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I am wondering how in the western universities science and engineering graduates turn towards atheism , while they admire Newton a lot. Any idea ?

05-01-2011, 08:10 AM	#4
addisonnicogel Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	Thanks a lot for starting a thread on an interesting topic. After a quick Google search , I found the following great quotes. --------------------------------- http://faithwellgrounded.org/apologe...on-creationist ---------------------------------- " For instance, I'll be quoting about Newton from "The Soul of Science", pg 72, quotes cited in original. Yet Newton himself was neither a deist nor a rationalist. He saw in the mechanical order of the world evidence for something beyond the mechanical world-- a living and intelligent Creator. In General Scholium, he argues that "this most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." And in Optiks, he writes that the business of science is to "deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." In Newton's eyes, the major benefit of science is religious and moral. It shows us "what is the first cause, what power he has over us, and what benefits we receive from him," so that "our duty towards him, as well as that towards one another will appear to us by the light of nature." Moreover, the motive for much of Newton's scientific work was apologetical, a fact widely recognized in his own day. Roger Cotes, in his preface to the second edition of Newton's Principia, wrote that the book "will be the safest protection against the attacks of atheists, and nowhere more surely than from this quiver can one draw missiles against the band of godless men." ---------------------- I am wondering how in the western universities science and engineering graduates turn towards atheism , while they admire Newton a lot. Any idea ?
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