“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, book The Necessity of Atheism

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/shly310.txt <br class="br">Alternate: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/shelleydeism.htm <br class="br">The Necessity of Atheism (1811)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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