Newton attributed it to the will and action of God the creator and sustainer of matter. What was matter after all but a place in the universe that God had infused with certain powers, such as the power of resistance to other matter trying to pass through it and the power of attraction to other matter even at a distance?35 In Opticks Newton asked, "does it not appear from
phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were
