When reading Paley’s Natural ural Theology Darwin believed that his work gave much delight as did the work of Euclid (Young, 1985 p. 30). Paley applied rigorous logic and a broad knowledge of philosophy to a wide range of contemporary scientific data in order to attempt nothing less than the final proof of the nature of God (Thomson, 2005 p. 5). This was particularly aimed and intended to bridge two completely different parts (science and religion) that had been long threatening to pull apart (Thomson, 2005 p. 5). It would resolve the conflict we find still unresolved to this day between, on the one hand, the world of scientific explanation, expressed in definable, measurable, physical properties and natural laws and, on the other, belief in
