Today’s “Intelligent Design” movement is based on an argument not unlike the one used by William Paley just before Darwin’s day. Paley believed that if you found a watch in a forest, you would not assume it had formed there by itself. You would assume that it had been made ultimately by a “watchmaker.”
By extension then, the human body is like a watch. The human body is complex—“irreducibly” complex according to the “Intelligent Design” movement. And so one might argue as Paley did that the human body could not have formed by itself. It had to have been made by an “Intelligent Designer.”
If the Intelligent Designer actually exists, here is a thought experiment for us to ponder.
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