Sir Isaac Newton: “On Atheism”
Posted by concernedchristian on April 1, 2009
As soom of you may know, I have a bachelor’s degree in physics. So when I found this manuscript detailing Sir Isaac Netwon’s belief about religion, I was intrigued to say the least. Especially when there was a section entitled, “On Atheism:”
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowells) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author?
Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it?
These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared.
I split it up into paragraphs because apparently Sir Isaac liked run-on sentences. All spelling “errors” are actually the way English was written in the 17th century.
Also, as a historical note, Sir Isaac was a heretic: he was an Arian who denied the Trinity; this heresy is most often found in Jehovah’s Witnesses. Nevertheless, someone should float this by Dr. Richard Dawkins, since he obviously doesn’t know that the man who invented physics thought atheism was ridiculous!
Psalm 14:1: “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’”
Happy National Atheist’s Day!
