Have you ever looked at the universe and wondered whether its remarkable beauty and precision point to something more than chance? We are reasonable creatures; it’s logical to see something that has clearly been intentionally designed and to know that it had to have a creator.
William Paley gave us a great example to understand this concept known as the “Watchmaker” analogy. If we are walking along the beach and come across a pocket watch in the sand, we know that it didn’t begin to exist by chance. Even though we didn’t see it happen and we don’t know how it got there, we know that at one point someone designed and created it. We know that there was a watchmaker. It would be irrational to look at the watch and say, “What an amazing watch! It’s incredible that random grains of sand, wind, and waves somehow came together into this complex and functional object.” The complexity and purposefulness of the watch point to an intelligent designer. In the same way, the incredible complexity, order, and beauty of the universe and humanity point to an intentional creator…
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