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• don't forget Isaac Newton!

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• When I wrote my treatise about our system
• I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity;
• and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose..

• Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.

• Isaac Newton, Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, 189.R.4.47, ff. 4A-5, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK; found on the Newton Project website: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00254; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• This Being governs all things,
  • not as the soul of the world,
  • but as Lord over all.
• . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect
• . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a
  • living,
  • intelligent, and
  • powerful Being.
• . . . He is not
  • eternity and
  • infinity, -but
  • eternal and
  • infinite;
• he is not
  • duration or
  • space,
• but he
  • endures and
  • is present.

• Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.

• Does it not appear from phenomena
• that there is a Being
  • incorporeal,
  • living,
  • intelligent,
  • omnipresent,
• who in infinite space
• sees the things themselves intimately, and
• thoroughly perceives them, and
• comprehends them wholly.

• Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain?
• And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?
• Was the eye contrived without skill in optics?
• And the ear without knowledge of sounds?

• Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• https://rsc.byu.edu/converging-paths-truth/brief-survey-sir-isaac-newtons-views-religion

• Newton was a serious theological scholar who was driven to use science to validate his conception of God
• Newton's scientific work is therefore a testament to the union between the deepest, common aspiration and motivations for science and religion, that is universal wonder of being