 | Ulrich Kutschera - Evolution (Biology) - 2004 - 316 pages
...we perceive ... that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that...motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day ... The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have a maker; . . . who comprehended... | |
 | William Paley - Religion - 2005 - 296 pages
...second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, namely, that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive — what we could not discover...parts had been differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no... | |
 | Michael G. Parker, Thomas M. Schmidt - Philosophy - 2005 - 206 pages
...biological science, the image of the watchmaker: when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive . . . that its several parts are framed and put together...parts had been differently shaped from what they are. or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no... | |
 | Jonathan Loesberg - Philosophy - 2005 - 308 pages
...time, without any external causation. The watch, however, is a different case: "when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...so regulated as to point out the hour of the day" (Paley, 5). At the risk of belaboring the obvious, I will note that a number of words that operate... | |
 | the late Wesley C. Salmon - Science - 2005 - 304 pages
...the second case, as in the first? For this reason, and no other, viz. that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion is so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that, if the several parts had been differently... | |
 | Phil Dowe - Religion - 2005 - 220 pages
...reason, and for no other, viz. that, when we come to inspect 5. Paley 1812. 6. Paley 1841. 7. Paley the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose.8 The difference between the stone and the watch is that the watch has "parts framed and put... | |
 | James F. Sennett, Douglas Groothuis - Religion - 2005 - 337 pages
...explanation in the case of the watch, but not in the case of a stone, because "when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose."4 In other words, the watch, unlike the stone, has working parts that are intricately arranged... | |
 | Hubert P. Yockey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 276 pages
...evolution need an intelligent designer? . . . when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive . . . that its several parts are framed and put together...a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that if the different... | |
 | Pier Luigi Luisi - Science - 2006 - 268 pages
...the image of the watchmaker (Paley, 1802): . . . when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive . . . that its several parts are framed and put together...parts had been differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no... | |
 | Gillian Rosemary Evans - Religion - 2006 - 244 pages
...would be hard put to it to dismiss its existence as an accident or chance. When we come to inspect the watch we perceive - what we could not discover...motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day.'0 It is not necessary for the rational observer to be able to penetrate far into the mechanics... | |
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For this reason, and for no other, viz, that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce... 
