Isaac Newton

I was a little disappointed to find out that one of science's greats has let me down. Isaac Newton has not lived up to either of his namesakes, Isaac, or fig newton tasty goodness.

I watched a video about him in Astronomy class, that dealt with his personal life based on his own personal writings. It turns out that while he was a genius he was more than a sloppy theologian. He was an Anti-Trinitarian heretic. To put more plainly his way of deducing life led him to believe that Jesus is not God. This originally came about from the Aryans, and almost broke the church in the 3rd century.

Newton came up with a way to study and look at the world, specifically calculus and physics. The "Newtonian" laws he came up with plus the calculus led him to believe that all things were results of cause and effect, and those effects could be calculated. This led him to think that the future could be figured out by calculations and he even "calculated" the return of Christ to be the year 2060. The French under René Descartes took his ideas and tore God out of them, leading to the "enlightenment."

Kind of frustrating, but as I raise my fig newtons high, I will remember what they could have stood for. very sad