In The Benedict Option, author Rob Dreher writes: "The scientific Revolution culminated in the life and work of Sir Issac Newton, a physicist, mathematician, and unorthodox Christian who fabricated a new model of the universe that explained its physical workings in a wholly mechanical way. Newton certainly believed that the laws of motion he discovered had been established by God. Yet Newton's God, in contrast with the God of traditional Christian metaphysics, was like a divine watchmaker who fa…