Quote:You are quote mining NDT and drawing your own conclusion that contradicts what NDT's actual message is. NDT is making the claim that event brilliant scientists quit searching and succumb to a god of the gaps argument for ideas outside the boundaries of their scientific pursuit.I was not intending to misrepresent NDT's message, only to point to the only place where I was aware of a statistic regarding NAS scientist's philosophical beliefs regarding a divine entity.
NDT:
Quote:Even if you are as brilliant as Newton, you reach a point where you start basking in the majesty of God, and then your discovery stops. It just stops. Your kinda no good any more for advancing that frontier, waiting for somebody else to come behind you who does not have God on the brain, and who says, ‘That’s a really cool problem. I want to solve it.’ They come in and solve it.
But look at the time delay. This was a hundred year time delay.
And the math that is in perturbation theory is like crumbs for Newton. He could have come up with that. The guy invented calculus just on a dare practically. When somebody asked him, ‘Ike, how come planets orbit in ellipses and not in some other shape?’ and he couldn’t answer that, he goes home for two months, comes back, out comes integral differential calculus because he needed that to answer that question. So, this is the kind of mind we are dealing with Newton. He could have gone there, but he didn’t.
He didn’t. His religiosity stopped him.
Your assertion on this matter is simply unfounded.
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That's not my quote... Am I supposed to respond to this? Did I miss something?
Ok friends
It's been fun, but I have other things to do. Maybe I'll be back after the weekend is over (if you're lucky). I know I've probably been quite entertaining- boredom sucks. Don't miss me too much...
