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I don't personally believe so, but maybe he was!

And yet you are equating another position that (you believe) Newton would have held (hi hypothetical that cannot be proven!) to make a (bad) argument against Darwinism? Appeal to authority much?

[twinaircant]

Most reputable scientists up to modern times believed in a Higher Being, and were very religious (Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, and the list goes on.)

I doubt they would have adhered to a theory of evolution as is espoused to day.

I understand that many today have a deep desire to "prove" this theory of evolution as a way of factoring a Higher Being out of the creation equation, but many of us don't fall for it, including Deists like myself.

You're making the mistake of confusing 'evolutionist' with 'atheist'. They are not the same thing. Many scientists are people of faith. Belief in a higher power has nothing to do with the practice of science. Scientists are atheists, agnostics, Christians, Deists, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus, and any other religion.

Sorry if my changing your quote offended you, but you are way off in your statements about evolution and science.