The following story may be a fabrication, but illustrates the point well. The story is probably sricken with many inaccuracies, but it reads better that way and saves me the research.
Isaac Newton did the math. He figured out the relations of the sun and the planets in our solar system, how their orbits work, the speeds,the distances etc.
He gave his calculations through to an engineer and asked him to build it exactly to scale according to his design.
A few weeks later, the engineer presented the model. There were some little mistakes which prevented the correct functioning, but they were soon cleared up. The model (complete with planets orbiting) was installed in the lounge, to his wife's dismay (see,I told you it's an inaccurate fabrication).
One sunny day, his atheist friend came round. At seeing the planet-model, he was amazed.
"Who made this??"
"No one made it. It just appeared. Fell out the sky, so to speak"
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