 ... the inference, we think, is inevitable, that 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...  The Monthly Epitome - Página 5451802Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Alexander Moore - 1993 - 548 páginas
...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 and at some place or another, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer;... | |
 | William Lane Craig - 1994 - 354 páginas
...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.14 This conclusion, Paley continues, would not be weakened if I had never actually... | |
 | John Howland Campbell, J. William Schopf - 1994 - 132 páginas
...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...artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we have found it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction and designed its use. For a theologian,... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 1994 - 484 páginas
...inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time and in some place or other, an artificer or artificers who...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. One additional step completes the argument: Organisms are even more complex,... | |
 | Herbert D.G. Maschner - 1996 - 292 páginas
...complexity of life as evidence for a divine hand, a divine watchmaker: 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. (Paley 1802) Ironically, Paley was in part correct in his assertion; a watch... | |
 | Gary Cziko - 1997 - 404 páginas
...explain the presence of a nearby stone. It is absolutely clear to Paley that "the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or another, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer:... | |
 | Roger Lewin - 1999 - 276 páginas
...must imply an agent of design. "The inference, we think, is inevitable; 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 we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use." The argument... | |
 | Hubert J. Richards - 2000 - 134 páginas
...think, is inevitable, that the To point out the hour of the day . . . watch must have had a maker . . . who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. Nor would it weaken the conclusion that we had never seen a watch made ...or... | |
 | Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 páginas
...transparent material is required, we would be forced to conclude "that the watch must have had a maker . . . who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer." By analogy, when we encounter the intricate mechanism of the world we must infer that it too had a... | |
 | Eric Steinhart - 2001 - 272 páginas
...together for a purpose (p. 9) . . . 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 (p. 10) . . .every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design which... | |
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