This is my new “friend” Oscar Drummer.  Oscar is in some crazy metal band (Christian metal?  I'm not sure, I don't understand the lyrics...but whatever, it's not important).  He also has a rather unhealthy obsession with the religious studies of Sir Isaac Newton (check my comments).  I think we can all agree that Newton made some pretty significant contributions to physics, but lest we forget he was working during the 17th and early 18th century and had a penchant for things like alchemy and mysticism (as did most people of his time).  As John Maynard Keynes states, "Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians."

Science, while not truth, is a progressive series of steps toward what we believe to be the best estimation of truth as substantiated by physical evidence.  Let’s remember that after Newton, along comes Einstein, who bitch slaps Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation and spits a little General Relativity in its face.  Okay, so Einstein had his own brand of spirituality too.  But look out!  Here comes a little quantum uncertainty, flipping Einstein the bird and kicking him in the stones. 

The point is that many great minds have contributed to our understanding of the natural world.  Scientific understanding is constantly expanding and while each historical figure in this quest for knowledge has brought about great wisdom, another great mind has always come along exposing us to something new and previously unknown.  Furthermore, while it is perfectly reasonable for a scientist to subscribe to a particular theology, these two aspects of this researcher are distinct and one should never influence the other.  Science is empirical and objective.  Theology is not a science.  It is introspective and subjective.  Believe what you will, but don’t try to use science to back your ass up.

You did get one thing right Oscar.  The rapture IS coming...and its name is Space Dinosaur, bitch.

*Ha!  It seems that our "friend" Oscar has left a similar Newtonian apocalypse comment for Richard Dawkins!  Perhaps you should have looked into Dawkins' position on religion before posting such silliness (of course seeing as the good Dr. Dawkins doesn't even keep his own website, I doubt that he is maintaining a MySpace page.  However, I'm sure whoever set his profile up is a fan of his work).

**Let's see what a modern physicist has to say about the probability of God given observable evidence (you'll have to scroll down a bit to: The posterior probability of any particular God...).  Now I'm not saying that Anderson is right and Newton is wrong.  What I'm saying is being good at physics doesn't make one infallible.  Being a bloodthirsty dinosaur with a jetpack, however, does (or it at least thins out the population of dissenters).

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