...It will be remembered that Darwin spent much of his life demonstrating why William Paley's claims - "every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature, of being greater and more"24 were false. Emphasizing that even the most complex of biological creatures...

...which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. . . . Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...difference, on the side of nature, of being greater or more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation.1 The evidence of design in nature has...

...famous 'watch' analogy, later explained by William Paley in his influential Natural Theology (1802): 'for every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature' (35), testifying to the existence of a Creator. The natural theological framework is confirmed here,...

...imply an adaptation maker, a deity. You cannot argue otherwise without falling into absurdity. "This is atheism; for every indication of contrivance, every...greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation."1 So influential and widely read was Paley that his book was part of the final examinations...

...the same conclusion must apply to 'every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design ... in the works of nature; with the difference, on the...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation.' As the watch has a maker, so we have a Maker. As the watch exists for a purpose, so do we. When Charles...