William Whiston

William Whiston (Born::December 9, 1667 – Died::August 22, 1752) was an English theologian, historian, and mathematician, an important popularizer of the ideas of Isaac Newton. In 1696, William Whiston published A New Theory of the Earth, in which he proposed an account of the creation of the world. He grounded his argument in the following three Postulata: Whiston was the first to propose that the global flood was caused by the water in the tail of a comet.
 * 1) The obvious or literal sense of scripture is the true and real one, where no evidence can be given to the contrary.
 * 2) That which is clearly accountable in a natural way, is not, without reason to be ascribed to a miraculous power.
 * 3) What ancient tradition asserts of the constitution of nature, or of the origin and primitive states of the world, is to be allowed for true, where &#8216;tis fully agreeable to scripture, reason, and philosophy.