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A critique of the design argument

The design argument is an argument made by analogy, and the stronger the analogy created, the stronger the argument is. There are several different versions of the design argument but some of the most famous are: Aquinas’s Summa Theologica and Paley’s Natural theology. Paley’s argument, in the early 19th century, became the best-known and most popular. His argument is as fallows:

Suppose you are on a deserted island and you come across a watch in the sand. Even though you know the island is deserted, you would automatically conclude that the watch could not have been the result of natural forces. Because the watch is so intricate, with its many different parts working together, it could not have come into existence without someone planning and manufacturing it. Therefore, since there is a watch there must have been a watchmaker. Now consider the complex human brain. It is far more complex than a watch and its parts work together to accomplish an event. Therefore, if a watch must be created by a watchmaker a human brain must be created by a perfect su

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