Johannes Kepler perceived intelligent design in the mathematical precision of planetary motion and in the three laws he discovered that describe that motion.81 Robert Boyle insisted that the intricate clocklike regularity of physical laws and chemical mechanisms as well as the anatomical structures in living organisms suggested the activity of “a most intelligent and designing agent.”82 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.
