...watchmaker as the designer of the watch, so ought we to infer an intelligent designer of the universe: For every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature, of being greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean, that the contrivances...

...possible optimization tool, as is the significance of brittleness in evolutionary systems. Introduction Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...difference on the side of nature of being greater or more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. William Paley, Natural Theology The conventional...

...occurred without the aid of a designer. Paley draws a parallel between the watch example and the universe: "Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...nature, with the difference on the side of nature being greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation."18 The tcleological or...

...had a contriver. His argument is, then, that the universe is analogous to a watch in this respect : every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art. in the complexity, subtility...

...In the same way, the design of organisms takes us to necessarily accept the existence of a creator: "every manifestation of design which existed in the...nature of being greater and more, and that in a degree that exceeds computation" (idem, p. 39). When the Darwinian tradition responds to this argument, a...

...concerning which we could not discover .. . in what manner they conducted to the general effect. . . Every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature . . . only greater and more and exceeding all computation . . . The contrivances of nature surpass...

...we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use (p. 10) . . .every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...1 mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art in the complexity, subtilty, and curiosity of the mechanism; (p. 17-18) ... 1 know...

...manifestation of design, wh,ch existed in the watch, exists m the works of nature; with the dltference, on the side of nature, of being greater and more, and that ma degree which exceeds all computation, I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances...

...phenomena of the universe give evidence of having been designed by a Maker to accomplish a specific end. Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean, that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtilty,...

...Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, published in 1 800, that "every indication of contrivance, every manifestation...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation." Chapter 15 The Eye of the Lobster In which the challenge to undirected Darwinian evolution posed by...