I would really like for you to know about one of the most brilliant men that ever lived…..Isaac Newton. Do take the time to read this short revelation about him that I have prepared for you……..
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642, the same year Galileo died. Newton’s mother was widowed twice, resulting in him being raised by his grandmother. He was sent off to grammar school at The King’s School, Grantham. His uncle, Rev William Ayscough provided the recommendation for him to attend Trinity College, Cambridge, 1661.
During this time, 24-year-old Issac Newton was studying at Cambridge, but the university shut down as a precaution against the Plague. Newton left London and self-quarantined himself at his family’s country estate. And while he was there, one day as he was sitting in the garden, he saw an apple fall from its tree to the ground in front of him.
In the Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life, written by William Stukeley, there is this story: “Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself; occasioned by the fall of the apple, as he sat in contemplative mood.
“Why should it not go sideways, or upwards? But constantly to the Earth’s center? Assuredly the reason is, that the Earth draws it. There must be a drawing power in matter. And the sum of the drawing power in the matter of the Earth must be in the Earth’s center, not in any side of the Earth.
“Therefore does this apple fall perpendicularly or towards the center? If matter thus draws matter; it must be proportion of its quantity. Therefore the apple draws the Earth, as well as the Earth draws the apple.’’
So Issac Newton from this formed the laws of universal gravitation that we study in our beginning physics courses.
Newton became a renown mathematician and a natural philosopher.
He formulated the three laws of motion, which aided in advancement of the discipline of dynamics. He explained in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687:
“FIRST LAW: An object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force;
SECOND LAW: Force equals mass times acceleration;
THIRD LAW: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.”
Newton was honored to occupy the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, 1669, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1672.
He was given the position of Master of the Mint, 1699, and in 1701, entered Parliament.
In addition to discovering the laws of universal gravitation, Newton was a discoverer of calculus. He helped develop it into a comprehensive branch of mathematics.
He constructed one of the first practical reflecting telescopes.
Using a prism, Newton demonstrated that a beam of light contained all the colors of the rainbow.
He laid the foundation for the great law of energy conservation and developed the particle theory of light propagation.
In 1703, Sir Issac Newton became the President of the Royal Society, and served in that position until his death.
This was one of the most brilliant men that ever lived…….just an amazing mind!!! He has to be considered the father of modern physics………such a brilliant scientist!
Now here is my point: All across the U.S. in our universities are a plethora of scientists and professors who say there is no God, that “science” has proved that to be true. They are atheists who say science has led them to this conclusion. So, since most of the laws upon which their work and studies rest were discovered and formulated by the brilliant Sir Issac Newton. Let’s look at what he thought and said about whether there is a God or not. OK?
Newton wrote one of the most important scientific books ever, Principia, 1687, in which he stated: “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being … All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‘Lord God’ … This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of His dominion He is wont to be called ‘Lord God’ … The supreme God exists necessarily, and by the same necessity He exists always and everywhere.”
Newton wrote in the last query of Optics, or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London, 1730, 4th edition, quoted in Sullivan, p.125-126): “Now by the help of these principles, all material things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles, above-mentioned, variously associated in the first creation by the counsel of an intelligent agent.For it became him who created them to set them in order.And if he did so, it’s unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of nature; though being once formed, it may continue by those laws for all ages.”
Newton wrote in Principia, 1687: “From His true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent and powerful Being; and from His other perfections, that He is supreme, or most perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, His duration reaches from eternity to eternity. His presence from infinity to infinity. He governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done.”
Newton was quoted in Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir David Brewster (Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1855, Vol. II, 354): “God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him, and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbors as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
And by the same power by which he gave life at first to every species of animals, he is able to revive the dead, and has revived Jesus Christ our Redeemer, who has gone into the heavens to receive a kingdom, and prepare a place for us, and is next in dignity to God, and may be worshiped as the Lamb of God, and has sent the Holy Ghost to comfort us in his absence, and will at length return and reign over us.”
Newton wrote in a “Short Scheme of the True Religion” (Sir David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1855, Vol. II, P. 248: “Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind.
“There is one God, the Father, ever-living, omnipresent, omniscient, almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus …To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.
That is, we are to worship the Father alone as God Almighty, and Jesus alone as the Lord, the Messiah, the Great King, the Lamb of God who was slain, and hath redeemed us with His blood, and made us kings and priests.”
Sir Isaac Newton died MARCH 20, 1727.
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