Argument from design

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The argument from design, known to aesthetes as the teleological argument, was attributed to William Paley, holds that:

The intricacy and sophistication of the engineering we observe at a cosmic, astrophysical, geological, biological, molecular and quantum level, whose specific configuration appears utterly essential for any part of the universe as we know it to exist, is so staggeringly great, and its provenance by chance so brain-bogglingly improbable, that it cannot have come about except through the intervention of an intelligent designer.

A God, in other words.

See also

• Conway’s Game of Life
• Transgressing hermeneutical boundaries