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originally posted by: theultimatebelgianjoke
originally posted by: Korg Trinity
There is no need to disprove something that has no proof positive.
In the same way there is no need to disproof the black holes when the are observed.
Seriously, I think we have a least one thing in common : we are both no hypocrites [SNIP]
originally posted by: Korg Trinity
You have to take into account two things when talking about Newton.
1. The times he was living in
and
2. His unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
Newton was without a doubt a great mind but the grimness of life and the lack of scientific knowledge during those days led many people astray into religious beliefs.
Newton was known for his obsessions with the occult and spent many many years on attempting to achieve the Philosophers stone and the transmutation of matter.
originally posted by: mbkennel
originally posted by: Korg Trinity
You have to take into account two things when talking about Newton.
1. The times he was living in
and
2. His unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
Newton was without a doubt a great mind but the grimness of life and the lack of scientific knowledge during those days led many people astray into religious beliefs.
Newton was known for his obsessions with the occult and spent many many years on attempting to achieve the Philosophers stone and the transmutation of matter.
Now it is called "occult" in hindsight, but at the time it was chemistry. Newton was an experimental chemist---back in the day well before the atomic theory of matter and correct distinction between compounds and elements. Newton recognized that the underlying behavior must have some kind of regularity and law, like planetary motion. It would take 200 more years, and major experimental and technological advances for the data to be available to understand this.
Finding hidden regularities and laws and manipulating them is 'occult magic'---when it is reproducible and works, it's science.