However, I doubt Newton is a good choice. He believed in an ever-active God
whose activity was not confined to the category of the "natural". We could
still understand this exceptional activity, but in theological terms, not
necessarily in scientific terms.
I have discussed issues related to these in an article listed in on my
webpage, which contains a long abstract. Readers are invited to see the
details there:
http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/tdavis/home.htm
Ted Davis