intervention in the normal course of nature? Actually, there are several problems with that approach, though not with the basic instinct of intuiting a Designer. The first is this: Thomas himself never says “We can’t explain X, so God did it”, and for good reason. The problem with “God of the Gaps” arguments (“I don’t know how this thing works or originated, so God must make it work by a direct miracle”) is that we are constantly filling in the gaps. A few hundred years ago, people could have said,