The French skeptic Voltaire predicted that within a hundred years of his death the Bible would be a forgotten book. Within fifty years of Volitaire's death, however, the Geneva Bible Society was using his house to publish Bibles for Europe.
Bernand Ramm wrote, "A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and commital read. But somehow the corpse never stays put."
Issac Newton, regarded as the greatest physicist to ever live, along with the second greatest physicist of all time - Albert Einstein (who had a picture of Newton on his wall as a reminder of the rewards of the diligent & inquisitive mind) were both theists.
Issac Newton spent more time writing about the Bible and attempting to decode it's hidden messages than he did his scientific studies. People often joke that if Issac Newton spent all of his time doing science, he'd have figured the whole Universe out. Others suggest the opposite - that maybe his unhindered passion with the crackpottery of ancient Hebrew text was the secret behind his genius.
The Bible, along with religion, isn't going anywhere. Thanks to the human race's obsession with fantasy (e.g. LOTR, Twilight, Harry Potter) and the study of the past - History.
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