[PatrickHenry]

BB:

Moreover, Newton believed that his laws of motion implied the generation of conditions of increasing disorder in the world, such that God would have to intervene periodically to rectify it in order to save it and keep it going:

Isaac Newton:

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
-- Principia Mathematica (1687) Laws of Motion I

One other quote from Newton (his public position, regardless of his private views):

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
-- Letter to Robert Hooke (February 5, 1675)

[PatrickHenry]

I forgot to give a link for my quotes: HERE.

[betty boop]

One other quote from Newton (his public position, regardless of his private views)...

Agreed, PH -- Newton's "official position." Yet it is also a fact that he wrote the Scolium Generale to clarify theological points in his major mathematical work, and put God into his Opticks all the same.

Go figure! :^)