lDesign
in inanimate nature had been noticed and discussed a number of times before Darwin: in William
PaleyÕs Natural Theology (1802), and especially in a series of books
The
Bridgewater Treatises (1833-40).
lAfter
Darwin, the problem surfaced again in the 1913 book by Lawrence J. Henderson, The Fitness of
the Environment, which noticed many strange features of chemistry that are quite
necessary for life to exist.