Re: 'Intelligent Design' moves on - new scientific breakthroughs

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:33:32 -0600, "Harry Thompson" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Phony Theory, False Conflict
>> 'Intelligent Design' Foolishly Pits Evolution Against Faith
>>
>> By Charles Krauthammer
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>> Friday, November 18, 2005; Page A23
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>> Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance,
>> insists on hearing yet another appeal of the Scopes monkey trial, I
>> feel obliged to point out what would otherwise be superfluous: that the
>> two greatest scientists in the history of our species were Isaac Newton
>> and Albert Einstein, and they were both religious.
>>
>> Newton's religion was traditional. He was a staunch believer in
>> Christianity and a member of the Church of England. Einstein's was a
>> more diffuse belief in a deity who set the rules for everything that
>> occurs in the universe.
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>Just goes to show how little Krauthammer knows. Newton was a secret
>unitarian, who in his private writings denounced the Trinity. Fulminated is
>more like it. He was anything but an orthodox Christian.

I would suggest that only a religious person would fulminate against
the Trinity. No one else would care.

> Of course, in
>public he kept his mouth shut.

Which was only common sense. It has never been wise to argue with the
priest class. See what it got Jesus ?

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