Was Isaac Newton (1642-1727) a bad scientist because he believed the world ends in 2060?
| February 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Biography, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Newton’s original theology and alchemy manuscripts are now on line here.
Among the many manuscripts preserved at the National Library are works by the man considered to be the greatest physicist of all time, Sir Isaac Newton. Contrary to what one might expect to find amid Newton’s works, these papers cover topics such as interpretations of the Bible, theology, the history of ancient cultures, the Tabernacle and Temple, calculations dealing with the end of time, historical documents, and even alchemy.
These papers introduce facets of Newton’s personality and work that the public has never before encountered. They are evidence of the great lengths that Newton went to in trying to decipher writings that, in his opinion, contained secret knowledge encrypted in the Holy Scriptures of ancient cultures and in historical documents. Exemplifying perfectly this type of research are Newton’s efforts to produce knowledge of scientific significance from the Biblical and Talmudic descriptions of the Tabernacle and Temple.
Digital manuscripts here.
Today’s narrow science bureaucracy, with its focus on ideological correctness instead of achievement, might shun Newton. One wonders what would become of Newton, the greatest British scientist of all time, at the hands of a British science czar like Beddington, who advocates that scientists be “grossly intolerant” of what they deem unscientific views. Most of Newton’s views probably fall into that category.
The wiser heads of yesteryear focused on how his laws of gravity related to the observed evidence. These laws (equations, really) revolutionized industry as well as astronomy because they enabled us to predict the behaviour of mechanical devices with great accuracy. Most people in his day relied on harnessing large animals for energy. Progress was limited because it is much harder to predict – or change – what an animal will do.
Look at it this way: Newton believed that the world would end in 2060. Unnumbered cranks and crackpots representing secular and religious causes have fronted end-of-the-world scenarios. But they did not provide us with useful science information the way he did. Gross intolerance, in science as in any endeavour, means goodbye to progress.
Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista
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It is precisely because of Newton’s tremendous success in science, and because he correctly ‘predicted’ the return of the Jews to Israel, long before their return was remotely feasible or even popular in the church to suggest as such, that his ‘end of the world’ prediction should at least merit more than a, ‘Oh No, not another crank prediction!’, response from people when they hear of his prediction:
Notes to that effect:
Sir Isaac Newton, who is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, scientist who has ever lived, was a avid student of Bible prophecy:
The following scripture, which Jesus Himself spoke, gives significant weight to the idea that the count of 17,640 days should start from the time Jerusalem came back into the hands of the Hebrews instead of counting the days from when Israel became a nation.
This following videos give a little ‘astronomical’ weight to the preceding prediction by Sir Isaac Newton of how the ‘days of Daniel’ are to be counted and is indeed very sobering:
Also of interest, it may surprise some to learn that the biblical ‘prophetic’ calender is more accurate than our modern day ‘scientific’ calender. The Gregorian calender uses a fairly complex system of leap days to keep accuracy with the sun, whereas, on a whole consideration, the prophetic calender uses a simpler system of leap months to keep accuracy to the sun. When these two systems are compared against each other, side by side, the prophetic calender equals the Gregorian in accuracy at first approximation, and on in-depth analysis for extremely long periods of time (even to the limits for how precisely we can measure time altogether) the prophetic calender exceeds the Gregorian calender. i.e. God’s measure of time exceeds the best efforts of Man to scientifically measure time accurately.,, But, as a Christian, why am I surprised about this? 🙂
further notes:
Music and Verse:
It is precisely because of Newton’s tremendous success in science, and because he correctly ‘predicted’ the return of the Jews to Israel, long before their return was remotely feasible or even popular in the church to suggest as such, that his ‘end of the world’ prediction should at least merit more than a, ‘Oh No, not another crank prediction!’, response from people when they hear of his prediction:
Notes to that effect:
Sir Isaac Newton, who is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, scientist who has ever lived, was a avid student of Bible prophecy:
The following scripture, which Jesus Himself spoke, gives significant weight to the idea that the count of 17,640 days should start from the time Jerusalem came back into the hands of the Hebrews instead of counting the days from when Israel became a nation.
This following videos give a little ‘astronomical’ weight to the preceding prediction by Sir Isaac Newton of how the ‘days of Daniel’ are to be counted and is indeed very sobering:
Also of interest, it may surprise some to learn that the biblical ‘prophetic’ calender is more accurate than our modern day ‘scientific’ calender. The Gregorian calender uses a fairly complex system of leap days to keep accuracy with the sun, whereas, on a whole consideration, the prophetic calender uses a simpler system of leap months to keep accuracy to the sun. When these two systems are compared against each other, side by side, the prophetic calender equals the Gregorian in accuracy at first approximation, and on in-depth analysis for extremely long periods of time (even to the limits for how precisely we can measure time altogether) the prophetic calender exceeds the Gregorian calender. i.e. God’s measure of time exceeds the best efforts of Man to scientifically measure time accurately.,, But, as a Christian, why am I surprised about this? 🙂
further notes:
Music and Verse:
I’m curious: How did Newton come up with 2060?
Traditional interpretation of scripture always concluded the Jews would return to Israel.
I;m not saying in human terms they have a moral right to the Arab peoples land. I don’t think they do but still I am sure they are there because of Prophecy and Gods will.
I find problems with newton and find him arrogant and silly in many things.
The british boss of science admonishes “grossly intolerant” is the order for unscientific ideas.
Newton aside what about Darwin.
Is evolutionary biology the result of biological investigation using the scientific method ??
Or is it a line of reasoning using geological presumptions with casts of former biology in sequences of geology?!
Or just plain lines of reasoning looking at turtles.?!
Bilbo I;
of note:
Thus 2013 + 2 = 2015,,,, but myself, I find the reasoning around the whole issue fairly convoluted and I much prefer the more straightforward count of days from the retaking of Jerusalem by the Hebrews, which I referenced previously. As well the video and article, referenced previously, goes a bit into Newton’s reasoning for that specific time frame;
Matthew 24:36 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
Which pretty much means as soon as anybody claims they know the date they are automatically wrong, Sir Isaac Newton included. Because if they were right then Jesus would be wrong.
Tragic, it is simply not as easy to write it off as you think it is;
Moreover:
Mark Biltz goes further into explaining the ‘no man knows the day or hour’ Jewish feast day in this interview:
Interview with Mark Biltz: Part 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VYjUZOw6y0
Tragic, if you are interested, the specific part of the video that deals with your ‘no man knows the date or the hour’ objection starts at the 8:33 minute mark in this portion of the interview:
The overall subject starts around the 3:33 minute mark;
You mean according to IN I won’t live to be 100? Darn! I was looking forward to that.