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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (23828)	6/11/2006 11:32:53 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 28931

Here's an interesting bit of info going back to information and some of the things cells are capable of: holycross.edu DAK

To: LLCF who wrote (23828)	6/12/2006 8:54:34 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Hey LOOK... Newton believes in Intelligent Design" He spent a lot of time studying the bible and practicing alchemy(http://www.alchemylab.com/history_of_alchemy.htm ) "His scientific fame notwithstanding, Newton's study of the Bible and of the early Church Fathers were among his greatest passions. He devoted more time to the study of the Scriptures, the Fathers, and to Alchemy than to science, and said, "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."23 Newton himself wrote works on textual criticism, most notably An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture. Newton also placed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ at 3 April, AD 33, which is now the accepted traditional date. He also attempted, unsuccessfully, to find hidden messages within the Bible (See Bible code). Despite his focus on theology and alchemy, Newton tested and investigated these ideas with the scientific method, observing, hypothesizing, and testing his theories. To Newton, his scientific and religious experiments were one and the same, observing and understanding how the world functioned. Newton rejected the church's doctrine of the trinity, and was probably a follower of arianism. In a minority view, T.C. Pfizenmaier argues that he more likely held the Eastern Orthodox view of the Trinity rather than the Western one held by Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and most Protestants 7. In his own day, he was also accused of being a Rosicrucian (as were many in the Royal Society and in the court of Charles II).8 In his own lifetime, Newton wrote more on religion than he did on natural science. He believed in a rationally immanent world, but he rejected the hylozoism implicit in Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza. Thus, the ordered and dynamically informed universe could be understood, and must be understood, by an active reason, but this universe, to be perfect and ordained, had to be regular." en.wikipedia.org

To: LLCF who wrote (23828)	6/12/2006 9:55:36 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Interesting... >>Among Collins's most controversial beliefs is that of "theistic evolution", which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man. In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further. "I see God's hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings in his image and decided that the mechanism of evolution was an elegant way to accomplish that goal, who are we to say that is not the way," he says.<<