I gave you a perfectly straight answer. Newton did great science and he also had some culpably bonkers notions. He was not able, in some regards, to think outside the box, but Galileo managed it all right, so the "of his time" argument/excuse crumbles just a little there. But that does not take away from Newton's achievements in physics. As far as I'm aware, he didn't allow his bonkers notions to impinge on what we now regard as his great science. Don't matter what I say, Snail-o, does it? You'll gnaw away at it anyway...or rasp, should I say...

As for pete, the best thing with him is to take any of his pronouncements on either science or religion to be completely cock-eyed. There is no other safe approach. One mustn't spend long on it.