“Nevertheless, many of the founders of modern science did not just
assume or assert by faith that the universe had been designed by an intelligent agent. They also argued for this hypothesis based on discoveries in their fields of study.
Johannes Kepler perceived intelligent design in the mathematical precision of planetary motion … .
Robert Boyle insisted that the intricate clocklike regularity of physical laws and chemical mechanisms as well as the anatomical structure in living organisms suggested the activity of ‘a most intelligent and designing agent’.
Carl Linnaeus later argued for design based upon the ease with which plants and animals fell into an orderly groups-within-groups system of classification … .
The tradition attained an almost majestic rhetorical quality in the writings of Newton”
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