Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons.

This paper takes its cue from an unpublished manuscript by the Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882). I elucidate how he attempted to integrate science and religion through natural theology. I argue that Jevons's manuscript shows that he took the theory of probability to be the most appropriate tool for finding evidence of divine design in natural phenomena.