Objectively speaking, both of the above are rumors, and using rumors to prove that something is inherently problematic. Why do you say that?
Let's talk about Newton and his time first, then Einstein.
About what? Newton? Rumors of
Newton was born in England at the beginning of17th century. As we know, Britain belongs to Western Europe, and there are many other countries in Western Europe, such as France, Germany (then the Holy Roman Empire), Italy and Spain. If we go back, we will find that this land is the original Western Roman Empire.
In 476 AD, the Western Roman Empire perished, and the barbarians who went south occupied all parts of Western Europe.
Barbarians at that time had no culture and no writing of their own. They used to be nomadic people, wandering around and chasing water plants. Now they want to settle down in this land with the local people in western Europe. They actually lack many things, such as system, law, culture and so on. At this time, Christian missionaries became one of the few intellectuals in Western Europe. They began to help barbarians manage western Europe, and later even the king needed the pope's coronation.
Therefore, what we need to know is that Western Europe entered the Christian world after 476 AD. Their people have been baptized since childhood and worship every week. It's just like the ancient people in China had to abide by Confucian customs since childhood.
Many changes took place in Europe before Newton was born. First of all, the ancient Greek classics returned to Western Europe, which led to the academic revival in Europe; Secondly, the academic revival led to the Renaissance, which began to advocate humanistic spirit and everyone's freedom to pursue truth. After the Renaissance, Western Europe began the religious reform movement, which was first initiated by Martin Luther.
Later, because of Henry VIII, Britain finally started the religious reform, and today's Anglican Church is Anli Ganzong.
However, with or without the Reformation, one thing remains the same. At that time, people believed in Christianity, but some were Catholics and some were Protestants. Moreover, most intellectuals at that time were from theology. Theology was the most popular major at that time, a bit like communication and computer major now. What does it mean to graduate from this major Future? And then what? Money way? . Copernicus was a priest. Galileo, Kepler, Tycho and other scholars at that time actually had religious beliefs, which ran through their lives.
So did Newton. He had religious beliefs since he was a child. However, Newton's religious belief is quite special. He believed in aliou and was regarded as a heresy by the mainstream religion at that time. So Newton spent his whole life hiding his religious beliefs. It was not until modern times that the economist Keynes bought Newton's diary that he discovered that Newton believed in aliou.
So it is a misunderstanding that Newton had religious beliefs in his later years. On the contrary, religious belief played a decisive role in Newton. Newton's religious belief convinced Newton that Christian classics had been tampered with, and in every era, a person chosen by God revised the tampered classics back. Newton was born at Christmas (when Britain still adopted the calendar instead of the new Gregorian calendar), so Newton thought he was the chosen one. He hopes to find the arrangement through natural philosophy (the predecessor of today's science), alchemy, magic and other methods.
So Newton not only left behind the three laws of Newton's mechanics, the law of gravity, calculus and optics, but also millions of words of theological notes and alchemical notes.
Objectively speaking, Newton was limited by the times. He has been struggling, because according to his law of universal gravitation, all substances have gravitation, so they should all gather in the middle. The problem is that no such phenomenon has been observed at all.
So he proposed a solution. First of all, he thinks that the universe may be infinite, so there is a center and gravitational balance everywhere. Secondly, he thinks that it may be God's push that makes the celestial bodies move, which is also called the first driving force problem.
Objectively speaking, Newton's problem has now been partially solved, that is, the universe is expanding, and the first driving force is actually the huge energy of BIGBANG. But in fact, we have not completely solved Newton's problem. First of all, we didn't solve it? How big is the universe? ? Secondly, we haven't figured it out yet, okay? The first driving force? How did it come into being?
I believe that science is likely to solve these problems in the future. But I also believe that after solving these problems, there will be more problems. This is how science develops step by step. When we know more, we will find that we don't know much.
About what? Einstein? Rumors of
Many people think that science and theology are in conflict, but this view is actually too simple. In fact, science and theology are essentially two sets of world views. They are not contradictory. You can believe in both, you can have confidence in one, and of course, you can't believe in both. Newton is a good example. He has a firm religious belief, at the same time, this did not prevent him from making great science.
Einstein is another good example. Einstein was an atheist. Even in his later years, he didn't believe in any religion. Einstein's eyes? God? Is it the ultimate theory pursued by scientists or the ultimate law of nature, not religion? God? .
What's on the market now? He had faith in his later years? Most of the content comes from the literature and is taken out of context. Such an atheist also developed a scientific theory comparable to Newton's. Newton and Einstein proved it well? Religious belief? Actually, with? Science? No contradiction, no opposition.