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If you mean sit Isaac Newton, for one thing, he practiced alchemy, which would have gotten him rather dead at the time. For another, you sort of have to be Catholic to be a saint and guess what. Not a great time in England to be a Catholic either. Not as bad as Shakespeare's time when they basically just killed Catholics, but still not great. For another thing, he never performed any miracles. Great man, greater than most people realized until just lately when many of his lost papers and books were rediscovered, but not a saint.

If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then that makes me a burning truck filled with TNT hurtling through a rocket fuel depot.

AQ -- Why would Newton (Isaac Newton I'm assuming) be made a saint?  He was a great scientist and mathematician, but he was not a Christian in the sense that he did not believe in the trinity. 

If you are referring to another Newton, please let us know his first name.

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Because Fig Newtons, tasty as they are, do not preform miracles.  

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Isaac Newton could well have been canonized a saint for having been one of the many scientists of his day to nail shut the coffin of atheism.  His masterpiece, Principia mathematica, includes numerous ontologies and physical proofs of Divine creation which modern science has repeatedly underscored.

Who was Newton's God?

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) used the avenues of science and logic to achieve total conviction in God.

Newton began with an attempt to explain the universe, with God as the Creator of all the physical laws that govern the universe. Newton believed that all natural laws are the effects with God as the only Cause of all actions. In fact, he believed that gravity is a divine action; in effect, a stone fell because God’s finger was pushing it down. As Newton was investigating the universe, he became convinced that he had a solid proof of God’s existence. He wrote “Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine power it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the sun, and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this system to an intelligent Agent.” God who had designed all this so perfectly, had to be a supremely intelligent “Mechanick” and extremely powerful to manage this huge universe. In Newton’s Principia, he concluded that humans know God only by examining the evidences of His creations:

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfection; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion; for we adore him as his servants.

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