YouTube - The Watchmaker
The watchmaker theory. (For anyone not familiar with this theory/argument)
One of, if not the, most famous arguments for Intelligent Design Theory, or Argument From Design, originally put forth by William Paley in Natural Theology - or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature, published in 1802. Although Paley himself never referred to a Watchmaker Theory by name, his comparison of life to a complicated and intelligently designed watch has become well-known and used by Creationists from every religion.
In the beginning of Natural Theology, Paley states a difference between simple, physically homogeneous objects such as stones, and purposeful, complex, manufactured objects like watches, and believes that for a watch to come into being "... the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use... every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the work of nature; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater or more, and that in a degree which exceeds all comparison."
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Here is an extraordinary example of how the Watchmaker analogy used by many supporters of Creation theory falls apart under close scrutiny. The results of this well thought out experiment are mind boggling.
Check out the video on YouTube. The video moves a bit quickly so just pause the video as needed to be able to read all the details and absorb them.
Video: Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker
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