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> .. worthy insights ..

I'm curious how you would define that. As far as I understand, Newton's life was definitely colored and shaped by his theological pursuits-questioning their 'worthy'ness is raising the more fundamental argument of faith.

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I mean that if Newton had found some groundbreaking insights through his lifetime of studying scripture, that we would likely have heard about them: the way we heard about calculus or gravitational theory or optics.

Newton wrote far more on his religion than he did on physics and optics. But it turns out that the value of that writing was virtually insignificant next to what little he wrote on physics and optics.

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