EVIDENCE ACCORDING TO NEWTON : 'DISTANCES BETWEEN THE CELESTIAL BODIES'
Isaac Newton, in his profound inquiries into the order of the heavens, proposed an argument pointing unmistakably toward the existence of God.
Why, he asked, do the bodies of the Universe — stars, planets, and all celestial matter — not collapse into one vast and shapeless mass under the relentless force of gravity?
The answer lies in their arrangement: vast celestial bodies are scattered across the immeasurable depths of space, separated by precise and stable distances. This spacing is not an accident of nature, but an intentional equilibrium — a design that balances gravitational attraction and cosmic stability.
Newton considered such harmony impossible without the intervention of a supreme and intelligent cause — a Divine Administrator who established the positions of all things and sustains them in perpetual order.
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
— Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (2nd ed., 1713) [1]
Thus, for Newton, the very distances between the celestial bodies are themselves silent witnesses of divine governance. Without such ordained separations, the universe would collapse into chaos; with them, it sings in harmony.
References:
[1] Newton, I. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Second Edition, London, 1713, General Scholium.