Does Newton's Principia demonstrate that miracles do not and cannot occur?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Does Newton's Principia demonstrate that miracles do not and cannot occur?

[Jim__]

1. No.

Newton did not believe that gravity could account for the stability of planetary orbits; and that the hand of god (miraculous intervention) was needed for this.

[Boojatta]

2. Some related info from Amazon dot com

The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton

Editorial Reviews

This is allegedly the first new English language translation of Newton's Principia (from Latin) in 270 years. (This sentence as shown here doesn't appear at the Amazon website, but resembles a sentence attributed to Library Journal at the Amazon website.)

Physics Today
"Cohen and Whitman's translation deserves to become the new standard. . . . " --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details
Paperback: 974 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (October 20, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520088174
ISBN-13: 978-0520088177

Page at Amazon's website

[PVnRT]

3. Irrelevant - it has nothing to do with miracles

[Boojatta]

4. No? Explain this...

We KNOW Newtonian physics is flawed. But for many purposes nothing is gained by adding in the complexity of relativity. No better results are obtained. So we use Newtonian physics. but we don't go 'oh my gosh... a miricle' when we observe something very fast that does not behave in accordance with Newtonian physics.

Doesn't that prove that there are no miracles?