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== Analogies ==

== Analogies ==

Many Intelligent Design advocates propose the "watch" analogy mae famous by [[William Paley]].

Many Intelligent Design advocates propose the "watch" analogy made famous by [[William Paley]].

: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?

 

Paley wrote:  

 

“Suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might possiblyanswer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever; nor would it, perhaps be very easy to show theabsurdity of this answer. But suppose I found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happenedto be in that place. I should hardly think of the answer I had before given - that, for anything I knew, the watch mightalways have been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone? When we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e.g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion is soregulated as to point out the hour of the day."

 

Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works ofnature; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds allcomputation. I mean, that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivance of art, in the complexity, subtlety, and curiosityof the mechanism.” .<ref>William Paley, Natural Theology, p2 </ref>

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