Re: That one dang genius who believes?
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This is admittedly unresearched, but off the top of my head, I call your bluff.
Newton did not live to see the work of folks like (but not limited to) Hume, or Kant, or Nietzche, or ungrateful rebels like Thomas Paine. A great amount of secular arguments against theism are derived from these sources.
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The one "red herring" perhaps is that since Newton (and Leibniz) "discovered" Calculus, he had an analytical brilliant mind (genius) and an eye for logic.
Yet Newton was a devout Christian, not one merely in name, he believed the Bible was the inspired word of God and read from it daily.
Newton must of saw some logic in Christianity far beyond what most 'emotional believers' and skeptics alike see in the religion, either that or he was 'brainwashed' which I don't think he was, nor apparently does Sklansky.
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