Some time back we wrote a comment on the great scientists of the world and how they came to believe the earth was created by a super Intelligence. To expound further on this subject, we came across a chapter on Isaac Newton, (who is known as the worlds greatest scientist), from the book "From Darwin to Design" by Dr. C. L. Cagan and Robert Hymers. Here in part is that chapter.
" Probably the greatest scientist who ever lived was an Englishman named Isaac Newton. He was born in 1642, so his youth was lived out during Puritan times. He died in 1727, eleven years before John Wesley was converted and the great Awakening of Protestant Christianity began. There was never a scientist greater than Issac Newton. Albert Einstein was not nearly as ingenious or creative.
When Newton was twenty-two years old, with only pen, paper, and his own mind, he invented calculus. That achievement alone would have made him one of the greatest mathematicians of all time...
Using the mathematics he had invented, Isaac Newton derived the law of gravity and the mathematical motions of the planets, the moon, the comets, and all moving terrestrial objects. He did this with only pen and paper, with all the computations figured out in his own mind. He didn't have a calculator, a computer, or an internet connection. Isaac Newton had to think for himself. He wrote his scientific findings in his book, "Principia."
In the conclusion to this book, he wrote:
"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...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 Pantocrator, or Universal Ruler, for God is a relative word, and has a respect to servants; and Deity is the dominion of God not over His own body...but over servants. 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; 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."
That sounds like conservative Christian theology, but it was written by Sir Isaac Newton, in the conclusion of one of the most important scientific books of all time. Newton had the wisdom to study the heavens and believe in God...
Although Isaac Newton believed in the existence of God, he never became a Christian. He remained like I was when God first became real to me, two years before I was converted. Yes, I believed in God, but I did not know Jesus Christ personally - and neither did Newton.
After his death, it was discovered that he spent time with the Puritans as a young man, in 1662, when he was twenty years old. The Puritans spoke to him about his soul and attempted to convert him. Newton even wrote out a list of his sins and thought deeply about salvation. For the rest of his life he retained a curiosity about the Bible. But at some point, in that year with the Puritans, he rejected conversion to Christianity. From then on, he no longer spoke to them about his salvation. While he believed in God, it was a mental and mathematical God and not the personal God of Scripture. Although he believed in a Creator, Newton denied the deity of Jesus Christ. Others followed his ideas, using his mathematical ability as a refuge for their rejection of orthodox Christianity. Some of those who were influenced by Newton’s ideas became known as "deists."
Although he was academically far more intelligent than you or me, and although he believed in the existence of the Creator, Newton died without experiencing Christ personally. For all his scientific abilities, he did not come to know the Savior.
Will you be like him? Or will you be saved through faith in the Son of God?
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31). "
By George Konig
10/21/2007
www.georgekonig.org
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