The zeroeth hacker

In 1837, responding to the official eight Bridgewater Treatises On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation, he published his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise putting forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator, making laws (or programs) which then produced species at the appropriate times, rather than continually interfering with ad hoc miracles each time a new species was required.