 But evidence of design in nature does not automatically imply gaps. Design built or “front-loaded” into nature from the very beginning would require no further interventions within the historical flow of nature and therefore no gaps. But since the artifact/nature divide parallels the gap/non-gap divide, one way the implausibility of alternative means of production could become exceptionally clear was if R were associated with a gap in nature’s capabilities—if the unaided course of nature genuinely could not or would not produce R, yet we see R in ‘nature’. In such a case, the appeal to agency would be virtually inevitable. 