The Boston Globe, July 28th, 2007
AS WITH Jeff Jacoby in his July 22 column "A teacher with faith and reason" (Op-ed), I've been struck by some of Isaac Newton's writings, a number of which indeed read as if written by a modern advocate of intelligent design. Jacoby argues that one of the greatest physicists of all time, Newton, by holding such views, couldn't get a job in a major university today. But what Jacoby doesn't say is how much has changed between 1668 and 2007: Darwin's theory of evolution, DNA, Einstein's theory of relativity, the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the closed universe and the big bang. One would h...
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