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Sir Isaac Newton: The world Will End In 2060

Posted by timothy on from the this-just-in dept.

Rikardon writes "A professor at King's College in Halifax has discovered, among the papers of Sir Isaac Newton, a prediction by this 'most influential scientist who ever lived' that the world would end in 2060. Those narrow-minded souls who still believe that devout religious faith is incompatible with fervent scientific inquiry are probably unaware that Newton 'was a theologian who wrote well over a million words on Biblical subjects,' and who devoted 'something like 55 to 60 years' studying the Book of Revelation."

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  1. This is not from the "this-just-in" dept... by Nice2Cats · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...because I submitted the exact same story two days ago, based on the original "Daily Telegraph" article from the 22nd of February, and including the cool Reuters headline "End of the World Is Nigh, Says Long-Dead Scientist", which they repeated on Monday in a re-written form.

    I know that you guys at Slashdot can't be perfect and that half of the time one quarter of you don't have a frigging clue what the other two eights are doing, but if you figure out later you made a mistake in rejecting a story, just fucking say so, don't lie to those of us who go the trouble of submitting the stories that pay for whatever passes for food with you people. It was "just in" two days ago, and you threw it away, and now somebody has given you a second chance. Okay, I can live just fine with that, as long as you can admit when you went wrong.

    Stuff like this is seriously offensive and is one of the reasons why people are turning their backs on this site and are moving over to Kuro5hin.