The assumption of design is useful to science
Although the assumption of a designer is ultimately dispensable in science, it still provides a useful guide to scientific explanations—providing standards of simplicity, continuity, unity, and organisation that have led to fruitful hypotheses.
Immanuel Kent (1790).

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