 ... 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
 | Christopher Upham Murray Smith, Robert Arnott - 2005 - 452 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Anthony O'Hear - 2005 - 336 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Hubert P. Yockey - 2005 - 276 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Michael G. Parker, Thomas M. Schmidt - 2005 - 206 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Pier Luigi Luisi - 2006 - 268 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Eugenie Scott, Glenn Branch - 2006 - 190 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Colin Jager - 2007 - 304 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis S. Collins - 2006 - 305 σελίδες
...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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