(March 7, 2018 at 11:24 pm)Fireball Wrote: As was mentioned, he was a product of his time concerning religion, though the whole of his alchemical work was quite heretical for that time. Who is to say he was a theist? I think enough of his work had to be done with lines of thought quite outside the religious canon, and that we can't say what he thought, many centuries later.
He wrote quite a bit on Biblical/Theological topics. I think that it would be difficult to say that he was just going through the motions, or playing along to get a long.
See http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/texts/.../religious
Frankly I find this popular atheists myth, that science and region cannot get a long, and that if one would only be educated in the doctrines of Science; that they would give up religion, to be quite laughable. To relegate so many's views to that of only superstition,is a misrepresentation.
I always like to ask, what is it, that you think I need to learn, that would so definitely turn me away from my belief in God? Which is when the dancing and the backing away of claims often begins!
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
