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 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 ...