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" ... 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 545
1802
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The Genius of Erasmus Darwin

Christopher Upham Murray Smith, Robert Arnott - 2005 - 452 páginas
...second case, as in the first? 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.70 A 'plan' implies intelligence and design. Paley asks whether it is possible...
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Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay of Science, Reason, and Religion

Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 páginas
...whereas in the case of the watch, 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.9 The care with which the parts of the watch have been made and the fineness of...
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Philosophy, Biology and Life

Anthony O'Hear - 2005 - 336 páginas
...with the intricacy of an artificial object like a watch and concludes 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. Yet what is a human artefact, like a watch, compared with the complexity of the...
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Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life

Hubert P. Yockey - 2005 - 276 páginas
...use that is now served by it. . , 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. William Paley( 1743-1 805) 12.1 Does the complexity of biology call for intelligent...
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Scientific Explanation and Religious Belief: Science and Religion in ...

Michael G. Parker, Thomas M. Schmidt - 2005 - 206 páginas
...use that is now served by it ... 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. Living animals and plants, Paley argued, are even more complicated than watches,...
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The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

Pier Luigi Luisi - 2006 - 268 páginas
...use that is now served by it ... 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. Living organisms, Paley argued, are even more complicated than watches, thus...
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Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools

Eugenie Scott, Glenn Branch - 2006 - 190 páginas
...and put together for a purpose ... the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker — that there must have existed, at some...actually to answer, who comprehended its construction and designed its use. Paley's watchmaker is both designer and craftsman in this case — the one who...
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The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era

Colin Jager - 2007 - 304 páginas
...out the hour of the day. . . . [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."' The natural objects of the world, Paley will say over and over again, are like...
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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism

Michael Martin - 2006
...the theme and leads, he says, to "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 1800). Until Darwin came along, this was a respectable argument, worthy...
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

Francis S. Collins - 2006 - 305 páginas
...always been there . . . the watch must have had a maker: that there must have ex87 LIFE ON EARTH isted, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. . . . Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed...
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