Many Intelligent Design advocates propose the "watch" analogy.
Many Intelligent Design advocates propose the "watch" analogy.
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:Imagine one is walking along a beach and suddenly encounters a wrist-watch. Given its vast sophistication vis-a-vis its environment, and the obvious non-random care with which it was made, does the wrist-watch pre-suppose an Intelligent Designer?
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:Imagine one is walking along a beach and suddenly encounters a wrist-watch. Given its relative sophistication vis-a-vis its environment, and the obvious non-random care with which it was made, does the wrist-watch pre-suppose an Intelligent Designer?
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:Watches prove human designers. By the same token, humans (which are infinitely more sophisticated than watches) prove an Intelligent Designer.
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Other Intelligent Design advocates propose the "eye" as a problem for evolution.
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:What good is part of an eye? Seeing is binary, you can or you cannot. Darwinian evolution cannot explain how an eye can evolve, because only a whole eye, entire, is of any utility.
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:Eyes prove Intelligent Designers. Without the craftsmanship of the divine, there wouldn't be the fine-ness and diversity of creation.