Newton viewed the order described by the laws of nature as a mode of divine action, but he also thought that many specific arrangements of matter (each subject to those laws) gave evidence of the design of an “intelligent and powerful being.” For example, in the Opticks, his major treatise on light, Newton argued that the uncanny match between the optical properties of light and the structure of the mammalian eye suggested foresight and design. As he explained: “How came the Bodies of Animals to be contrived with so much Art, and for what ends were their several Parts? Was the Eye contrived
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