...simple examination of the watch leads the mind inexorably forward to affirm that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time,...the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who understood its construction, and designed its use.31 The logical conclusion is that it was designed...

...think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at sometime, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers,...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had never seen a watch...

...think, is inevirable; that the warch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at sometime, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers,...which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended ics construction, and designed its use. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had...

...anyway, was obvious and compelling: "[T]he inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time,...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use."7 Paley then devotes the rest of his treatise on examples of complex and apparently...

...vastly more plausible: "|T|he inference ... is inevitable: . . . the watch must have had a maker; . . . there must have existed, at some time and at some...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use." He then asserted that if you agree with his assessment about the watch being...

...hopwearmouth—hypothesized the discovery of a watch, its form and function. He concluded "that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time...artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose. . . . There cannot be a design without a designer; a contrivance without a contriver; order without...

...said, observed and understood), the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time,...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. I. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had never seen a...

...anything I knew, the watch might have always been there... no, the answer is that the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time,...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use ... Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed...

...Nebraska Press, 1976. and understood, the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker - that there must have existed, at some time...actually to answer, who comprehended its construction and designed its use. Paley's essential point is that nature bears witness to a series of biological...

...product of the blind laws of nature: "The inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time,...actually to answer: who comprehended its construction, and designed its use" (Paley 1802: 3). Just as Ray had argued in the seventeenth century, Paley insisted...