![]() ![]() Imagine my excitement, then, when I learned a few years ago that he was writing an essay about New Atheist views of science and religion. After earning the BA and MA in history from the University of Victoria, Snobelen earned the PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, one of the top such programs in the world. A founding member of the Newton Project (now at Oxford University) and Director of the Newton Project Canada, he does extraordinarily careful studies of Newton’s voluminous theological papers, which he understands as well as anyone who has ever lived, including Newton’s own friends. Stephen Snobelen of the University of King’s College in Halifax is one of the people whose work I most admire. ![]() I eventually published two short pieces about Newton and I’ve done my best to follow the work of those historians who make Newton the focus of their work. Although Westfall wasn’t the source of my own interest in Newton, he certainly fanned the flames. (“Sam”) Westfall, wrote the definitive biography of Newton and perhaps did more than anyone else to bring to light the “real” Newton, the man whose devotion to alchemy, theology, and church history greatly exceeded his interest in mathematics and physics. My dissertation supervisor, the late Richard S. ![]() In graduate school I had the distinct pleasure of studying with Isaac Newton. Introducing Stephen Snobelen (by Ted Davis): Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion (2006), is just one of many books advancing a New Atheist view of religion and science ( image source). ![]()
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