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It has been claimed that the modern argument from design first appears in John Wilkins, one of the founders of the Royal Society, in Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion, published posthumously in 1675.

But the legacy of the mechanical philosophy was not simply modern versions of the argument from design, which are still widely defended in the form of Intelligent Design.

If Newtonianism destroyed the corpuscular philosophy, it greatly strengthened the argument from design.

Newtonianism was thus only conceivable within a culture which had elaborated and become dependent upon the argument from design.

As for the argument from design, it was fundamentally different from the traditional Thomistic argument, which held that the universe was imbued with purpose, and that the ultimate purpose was to be found in God.