sarily be a need for the existence of a designer. In fact, the existence of a watchmaking watch would only stren!
gthen the hypothesis of a designer, for it would make the watch an even more complex system. So, Paley concludes, if it is the case that intelligent design can be seen in watches, then it should also be recognised immediately in nature. Hence, the world is the product of intelligent design, and that designer is God.
There are two ways of setting out this argument in formal terms. The first to be dealt with is the most common interpretation of the argument: an inductive, or inference to the best explanation analysis. We may set out the argument thus:
P1. There are some things, like watches, that can be immediately realised as the work of an intelligent agent, or designer.
P2. This is something that we can realise with no prior knowledge of the object's existe
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