Asa Gray...

Darwinian teleology has the special advantage of accounting for the imperfections and failures as well as for the successes. It not only accounts for them, but turns them to practical account... So the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principles of the Darwinian,... it would appear that in Darwinian evolution we may have a theory that accords with, if it does not explain, the principal facts, and a teleology that is free from the common objection.. if {a theist} cannot recognize design in Nature because of evolution, he may be ranked with those of whom it was said 'Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe'

Darwiniana, 1876, as quoted in Barrow and Tipler