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Why did Newton and Einstein study theology in their later years?
Newton and Einstein knew God before they studied science. They are all blessed by God. Newton was a devout Christian, and his passion for God far exceeded his interest in science. Einstein was a Jew, a chosen man of God, and a blessed man!

This is the story of Newton,

Newton, the master of science, was born in a peasant family. Before he was born, his father died of illness. His mother's name is Hannah. In despair, she remembered that there was also a woman named Hannah in the Bible who prayed to God in a crisis. Newton's mother made the same prayer: "If you care about the suffering of your handmaid, please remember your handmaid and give me a son, and I will dedicate him to the Lord for the rest of my life." So Newton thought that God kept him alive and there must be something for him to accomplish. Later, Newton really lived a life of walking with God. His stepfather and uncle were priests, which gave Newton the opportunity to enter the university to receive theological and natural science education. When he graduated, he did not accept the clergy as usual, but studied natural philosophy instead of proving the existence of God, and also obtained the charter of the King of England.

Newton lived in poverty when he entered Cambridge University, but he got great help from the famous mathematician Professor Moore, who was also a Christian. Moore was keenly aware that Newton was different, so he gave Newton more guidance in science, provided Newton with living expenses for many years and became Newton's spiritual elder. Remember the famous story of Apple? It was in 1655 that a terrible plague broke out in England and the university closed. In these two years, Newton's "life thought reached its peak" (in Newton's language). He used to pray and meditate for a long time in the garden and often thought about various problems under the tree. According to his good friend stukeley, he really thought about gravity because a falling apple in the garden triggered a series of events that changed the scientific community forever, so that the apple later became a symbol of gravity. Manuel, a professor of history at new york University, commented: "Modern science originated from Newton's meditation on God."

Newton was often isolated and addicted to research, even in the professional field. Even in his later years, he had a morbid aversion to any publication, which made many of his research manuscripts discovered many years after his death. In the process of publishing the scientific masterpiece Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, astronomer Harley played a magical role. Six years before the book was published, Newton had made many research achievements, because Harley came to Newton for advice. Later, through Newton's reply to the article "The Movement of Stars in Orbit", he found that this was bringing revolutionary progress to celestial mechanics, so he patiently persuaded Newton to get his permission to publish this paper. Later, Harley visited Newton again and put forward the theory and problems of the book "Theory of Motion", which broadened Newton's horizons from the perspective of astronomy. After Newton's almost isolated research for nearly a year and a half, he finally finished this three-volume masterpiece. When the film was released, he met with financial difficulties. Harley stepped forward and volunteered to bear the cost. In fact, he is not rich. It can be said that without Harley's encouragement and help, perhaps the manuscript of Principles will be discovered by future generations like Newton's theological research and chemical research manuscripts.

Mankind has just entered the 20th century. Einstein, a German Jew, first put forward the special theory of relativity. On the basis of this principle, he unified Newton's mechanics and Maxwell's electrodynamics, pointing out that they both obey the principle of special relativity. Then, on the basis of generalized covariation, the general relativity establishes the relationship between the local inertial system and the universal reference coefficient through the equivalence principle, and establishes the gravitational theory of generalized covariation, and Newton's gravitational theory is only its first approximation. Relativity strictly examines the basic concepts of physics such as time, space, matter and motion, and gives the time-space view and material view of scientific system, thus making physics a perfect scientific system logically. God gave this Jew too much wisdom, and his scientific achievements became the basis of studying space technology, nuclear physics, dense astrophysics and black hole physics. Fortunately, Hitler, the Nazi leader of Germany, rejected the Jews, let Einstein run to the United States, and let the United States take the lead in creating the atomic bomb, otherwise the history of mankind would be rewritten!

Actually, it's not just Newton and Einstein. From Aristotle to the present, it is obvious that God has led human history by examining the history of scientific development. As long as human beings exist, the pace of human understanding of the universe and itself will not stop, just like the British physicist Hawking appeared after Einstein, but more and more discoveries and evidence clearly point to one result, that is, God created everything in the world and human beings! As Darwin said, "I admit that primitive life was created by the God of Creation. Without an ultimate reason, the universe cannot exist. "

May I help you, and may God bless you!