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It is the kind of teleological argument that many scientists reject, but one that Davies cannot help finding attractive.

The order in nature cannot be used as the basis of a teleological argument; what we call order of nature is necessity as distinguished from chance.

The gradual development of stability from instability, harmony from disharmony, a state where collision is at a minimum from one where it was at a maximum, may be regarded as furnishing the best phase possible of a teleological argument.

Our analysis of the development of thought, feeling, and will, has an important bearing on the teleological argument.

We may ask, then, whether the friends of the teleological argument would agree to designate this state, which is highest from a mathematical point of view since it includes all the elements of the universe, as highest in any point of view favoring a theological theory of design.