 ... 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 - Σελίδα 5451802Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Paul Haffner - 2001 - 304 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - 388 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - 388 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Karl Giberson, Donald A. Yerxa - 2002 - 292 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1989 - 372 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Marcello Barbieri - 2003 - 320 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 2001 - 354 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - 485 σελίδες
...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... | |
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