Isaac Newton: man of science…

man of faith.

In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.

“It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner,” Newton wrote. However, he added, “This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.”

Interesting. What often gets lost in debates about science and religion today is that the scientists who laid the groundwork for the modern scientific world were religious. As are many scientists today.

You can be both, people. Who’d a thunkit?

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