... the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who... The Monthly Epitome - Página 5451802Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Tod E. Jones - 2003 - 362 páginas
...famous teleological argument that, just as we must infer from an observation of the mechanism of a watch that "there must have existed, at some time, and at...actually to answer: who comprehended its construction, and designed its use," so too must we infer from "the contrivances of nature," which "surpass the contrivances... | |
| Timothy A. Robinson - 2002 - 452 páginas
...said, observed and understood — the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker — that there must have existed, at some...the purpose which we find it actually to answer, who completely comprehended its construction and designed its use. I. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken... | |
| Mark C. Taylor - 2003 - 353 páginas
...This mechanism being observed . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable that the T watch must have a maker; that there must have existed, at some time,...artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose of which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. "1... | |
| Edward Harrison - 2003 - 366 páginas
...ages. "But suppose I found a watch on the ground, a natural conclusion would be the watch must have a maker; that there must have existed at some time and at some place an artificer or artificers who formed it for the common purpose which we find it actually to answer,... | |
| Henry C. Plotkin - 2003 - 324 páginas
...complexity that spoke of intentional design. This must mean it 'had a maker ... an artificer . . . who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer'. A maker who had a purpose. Well, what went for watches must also go for the colouration of moths, the... | |
| Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse - 2004 - 216 páginas
...said, observed and understood,1 the inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time,...actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use." William Paley, Natural Theology; or. Evidences of the Existence and Attributes... | |
| Gary Moring - 2004 - 430 páginas
...use that is now served by it ... the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker — that there must have existed, at some...actually to answer, who comprehended its construction and designed its use. The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must have a designer.... | |
| Niall Shanks - 2004 - 296 páginas
...that "we think it inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker — that there must have existed at some place or other, an artificer or artificers...actually to answer, who comprehended its construction and designed its use" (1850, 10). The next step in the argument is to consider the eye, which, like... | |
| Judith Hooper - 2002 - 412 páginas
...think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker - that there must have existed, at some time at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose . . .12 In a similar manner, Paley argued, many biological systems such as muscles, bones and mammary... | |
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