However, this idea gradually fell out of favor among scientists, as they became more and more committed to the idea of methodological naturalism and came to believe that direct appeals to supernatural involvement were scientifically unproductive.
Porén, esta idea perdeu gradualmente o favor dos científicos, xa que se fixeron cada vez máis partidarios do naturalismo metodolóxico e crían que as apelacións a implicacións sobrenaturais eran cientificamente improdutivas.