Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Deus ex machina" in English language version.
This is the machina ex machina hypothesis. In Paley's self-replicating machine, it is imagined that the machine has a mechanical program and equipment to first manufacture the components of a watch and then to assemble these parts into a new, functioning, offspring watch that inherits the ability to replicate itself from the parent watch. [...] Von Neumann's development of a machina ex machina hypothesis did not have a theological motivation. Instead, it grew out of a puzzle in computer theory.
