Much has been made about how Darwin and Dawkins have refuted Paley’s “watchmaker argument”. I have shown elsewhere  that this is not the case. However it is not the perceived failure of Paley’s argument that should concern us, rather we should focus on his success. Paley famously said nature is like a watch found on a heath…only much more complex. If we discover a watch we know there is a watchmaker. The innate assumption in this argument was lost not only on his predecessors

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In a previous post, I had promised to open the can of worms that the more ancient watchmaker argument presents for us. Cicero, and those...

I ended up reading Paley’s Natural Theology quite by accident but my appreciation (which both Darwin and Dawkins share(d)) for his work...