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To: average joe who wrote (21761)	2/29/2012 12:37:15 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

"Was surprised that Brumar would hold Newton up as an example. No doubt that he was famous for scientific observations but mentally ill at the same time." Yep. It must have been horrible for Newton to try to rationalize such irrational dogma. Of course, biological science was an infant and the Church was still considered a source of TRUTH passed on by a supernatural being. As for Brumar--ALL his connections are loose! He juxtaposes stuff that is absurd with stuff that is irrelevant and pretends it proves that some other absurdity is not irrelevant or is perhaps an atheist or a cow in cammoflage gear! Who knows what passes for thinking between those two ears of clay... :-) "After suffering a second nervous breakdown in 1693, Newton retired from research. The reasons for this breakdown have been discussed by his biographers and many theories have been proposed: chemical poisoning as a result of his alchemy experiments; frustration with his researches; the ending of a personal friendship with Fatio de Duillier, a Swiss-born mathematician resident in London; and problems resulting from his religious beliefs. Newton himself blamed lack of sleep but this was almost certainly a symptom of the illness rather than the cause of it. There seems little reason to suppose that the illness was anything other than depression, a mental illness he must have suffered from throughout most of his life, perhaps made worse by some of the events we have just listed."