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Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions came to a head in the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design came into conflict with radical new theories on the transmutation of species.
In order to support the canonical scientific views at the time, which explored the natural world within Paley's framework of a divine designer, The Earl of Bridgewater, a gentleman naturalist, commissioned eight Bridgewater Treatises upon his deathbed to explore " the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.
" They first appeared during the years 1833 to 1840, and afterwards in Bohn's Scientific Library.
The treatises are:
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