Consider the following excerpt from a letter written by Isaac
Newton to Reverend Dr. Richard Bentley in 1692, in which he
describes some of the implications of his Law of Gravitation…
“To your second query I answer that the motions which the
planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone
but were impressed by an intelligent agent. For since comets
descend into the region of our planets and here move all manner
of ways, going sometimes the same way with the planets,
sometimes the contrary way, and sometimes in cross ways in
planes inclined to the plane of the ecliptic at all kinds of
angles, it’s plain that there is no natural cause which could
determine all the planets both primary and secondary to move the
same way and in the same plane without any considerable
variation. This must have been the effect of counsel.” I’ve been
thinking about this for a while, and I think it’s time to
discuss my theory of intelligent falling. I was inspired to
question the Newtonist dogma on “gravity” when I lea