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Newton was aware that the stability of the solar system was threatened by the cumulative mutual attractions of planetary bodies and comets, and he believed that divine intervention would be needed to keep things on track.

Throughout the course from its intellectual development, humanity has carried different conceptions, beliefs and fanciful impulses, including atheism. Debating the existence of God has been a topic of great interest among the intellectual elite, philosophers and scientists.

Newton’s God

However, in the long run, God’s challenge turned out to be so senseless and heinous that according to Newton he never had many teachers. Attributed as the “saint of science” and the “priest of nature,” Newton was also considered a keen, insightful, and learned theologian by his contemporaries.

According to him, this most beautiful system of the sun, the planets and the comets, was not a law of chance but could only come from the advice and the domination of an Intelligent Being. This Being rules all things, not only as the soul of the world, but as the Lord as a whole. For him, the Supreme God is eternal, infinite and absolutely perfect. Newton saw God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the greatness of all creation.

His hidden writings

Newton wrote many works which would henceforth be classified as occult studies and religious tracts dealing with the literal interpretation of the Bible.

In his Principia, Newton frankly admitted that he had in mind the promotion of the belief in the Godhead among “considerate men.” He also maintained the conventional line that the arrangement of the solar system testified to the wisdom and power of God and more specifically, that various characteristics of the cosmos had been “fine-tuned”, as we would now say, for the benefit of its humanity. residents.

Regarding his own theory of gravity, Newton was aware that the stability of the solar system was threatened by the cumulative mutual attractions of planetary bodies and comets, and he believed that divine intervention would be needed to keep things on the line. right way. There was a determined moral earnestness that guided Newton’s inquiries, whatever their purpose and purpose.

Newton wrote much more about God than any other idea that highlights his restlessness with the subject. Most of us don’t know that he had over 30 versions of the Bible and studied them meticulously. He did a really deep study to find out the truth about God. He had indeed cared more about this stuff than he had been about physics, the natural world, and mathematics combined. Yet this vast legacy remained hidden from the public for two centuries until the auction of his non-scientific writings in 1936.

This is because our world has always suffered from extremism. Newton risked while keeping these beliefs because otherwise he could have ended up in prison or be dead. And that would have kept us deprived of much of his enlightenment.

Albert Einstein

Einstein also once clarified that “i am not an atheist“. Einstein believed in a cosmic religion that orchestrates the order and sublime beauty of a large universe. A scientist a generation before Einstein, William James, believed that our brains may be too small and could actually there is a God out there that we just can’t detect with the radar that we have.

There is a feeling of the greatness of the universe that even atheists and materialists get when they look at the Milky Way. Likewise, agnostics may not believe in a personal God who deals with the fate and actions of human beings, but their conscience confirms Him through the cosmic order.

Nietzsche’s philosophyNot only from the realm of science but also from the dominance of philosophy itself, the idea of ​​atheism was countered with great conviction.

The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), a supporter of the “death of God”, wanted to express the idea that scientific enlightenment had killed the possibility of believing in God or in any gods that had ever existed. Iqbal in retaliation to Nietzsche, had said

Agar hota wo majzoob firangi iss zamane mein
Tou Iqbal usko samjhata maqame kibriya kya hai

Only a low level of knowledge or trust can make us indiscriminately accept disbeliefs on the other side. Nietzsche was not only an atheist but more precisely a anti-theist. When an atheist proudly claims that God can be refuted, he ignores the human imagination. All science and philosophy is due to the human imagination and not the other way around. Now, when Nietzsche and many like him no longer exist, God still exists and has existed for all eternity.

While atheists can be appreciated for offering us impressive proof that specific, inflexible gods do not exist, it is nonetheless not the same as successfully proving that no single god could exist. The human imagination will, in all likelihood, forever surpass reason, logic and scientific facts.

Extraterrestrial life

To better appreciate the magnitude of the task of disproving the existence of God, compare it to the task of proving that no extraterrestrial life exists. Scientists who were skeptical about this some time ago now assume that such a life has a good probability of existing elsewhere in the vast universe. So can atheists bear the burden of proof to permanently eliminate the possibility of God?

Relying only on agnostic lines only leads to doubts, suspicions, and verbal subtleties, but only a beautiful mix of science and religion has brought many clarifications. However, at the same time, there is an urgent need to restore the simplicity of both religion and science to be lovable.

(The author teaches physics at Cluster University, Srinagar. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of Kashmir Life.)