I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are wonderful; now I began to think them miracles in the stricter sense that they were willful. I mean that they were, or might be, repeated exercises of some will. In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic; now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story; and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
–G. K. Chesterton
This is simply another re-stating of the idea that an intelligent design requires and intelligent designer. Chesterton came to realize through the basic study of this world, that there was a purpose for it – a purpose for its facts and for its natural laws – and that there was a Person behind the purpose. As a story-teller himself, he realized that this life is itself a story and that there was a Great Story-Teller behind it all.