Plato, his student, and Aristotle, Plato's student, developed complex approaches to the proposal that the cosmos has an intelligent cause, but it was the Stoics who, under their influence, "developed the battery of creationist arguments broadly known under the label 'The Argument from Design'".
Plato, muridnya, dan Aristoteles, murid Plato, mengembangkan pendekatan kompleks proposal ini bahwa alam semesta tercipta oleh suatu kecerdasan, tetapi Stoa-lah yang, di bawah pengaruh mereka, "mengembangkan deretan argumen penciptaan yang secara luas dikenal dengan label 'Argumen dari Perancangan''".