Strikingly, no one saw any contradiction in the views of the two camps. In part this reflected a division of labor. The physicists focused on the elegance of God’s aesthetics, the biologists on the range of His inventiveness. Both sides were bound by the shared conviction, deeper than any possible division, that God had designed every feature of the universe. For the physicists, that view led directly to the idea that God was a mathematician, and progress. For biologists, it led down a blind alley and made the discovery of evolution impossible.
