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The Teleological Argument, William Paley Paley is arguing for the evidence and existence of a designer. He does this through the rules of analogy. The analogy Paley employs is between a rock and a watch. Both are found on a road alone, and nothing of their history is known. His point being that when we look at the watch and inspect it a little closer we can clearly infer that there had to have been a designer or a watchmaker because of the complexity of the watch. The other side of the analogy would have to be that the watch represents the complexity of nature. How much more complex is nature itself than a watch? Therefore we must infer that there is a designer of our universe as well. In response to Paley’s argument I’ll have to say that at first glance I felt very comfortable with everything he said. I agree that everything on this earth is amazingly complex and intricate. However, I do not feel that one can make such large jumps or such broad inferences. On the last page Paley writes, “(Nature) yet, in a multitude of cases, are not less evidently mechanical, not less evidently contrivances, not less evidently accommodated to their end, or suited to their office, than are the most perfect productions of human ingenuity…”(Paley 161). For me, after taking a little while to digest what I had read, I decided that Paley was taking the easy way out. He is simply stating the obvious. It seems that this is an argument for the masses.
Approximate Word count = 1016
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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