I wonder what Newton would say if he were alive today and in possession of what we know today? The man is not alive to defend himself. He was doing the best he could with what he had to work with in the time he lived. Remember that he had to get along with the orthodox bureaucracy of his time. How much of what he wrote then would he write today in a more liberal, religiously free era? He may have believed in what he wrote, but would he believe it today?

Somehow I think not. Science builds on the foundations of men like Newton, but it does not pay homage to the effigy; it moves onward and forward in thinking and practice. Newton would be amazed at the progress we have made, much based on his foundation. To quote his religious beliefs is to dishonor the scientist he was, IMHO. He can't defend himself today. He was a great scientist IN HIS TIME but this is today and we know things he did not. Quit using him as a cudgel and get your perspective rearranged; he is a foundation of modern science, not a theologian. You're as bad as the Inquisition trying to enforce Ptolemy's view of the universe when you do that.