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.