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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (243147)	3/22/2008 1:44:13 PM
From: briskit	Respond to of 794043

It will be hard to fault his science anyway.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (243147)	3/22/2008 2:02:37 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 794043

By odd coincidence, Stephenson deals with this very subject in book three of his Baroque Cycle. From a part I read just last night: Isaac Newton: "I am not one of those who believes that God made the world and walked away from it, that He has no further choices to make, no ongoing presence in the world. I believe that He is everywhere, making choices all the time." . . . Waterhouse: "The inner workings of gravity, you seem to be saying are beyond the grasp, or even the reach, of Natural Philosophy. To whom should we appeal, then? Metaphysicians? Theologins? Sorcerers? Newton: "They are all the same to me," Isaac said, "and I am one."