For example, in an essay on “Final Causes” he argued: “The Wise Author of Nature has so excellently Contriv’d the Universe, that the more Clearly and Particularly we Discern, how Congruous the Means are to the Ends to be obtain’d by them, the more Plainly we Discern the Admirable Wisdom of the Omniscient Author of Things; of whom it is Truly said by a Prophet [Isaiah], that He is Wonderful in Counsel, and Excellent in Working.”24 Consequently, he rejected “so Blind a Cause as Chance” as the explanation for both the orderly concourse of nature and the exquisite structures manifest in living
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