According to William Paley’s “The Teleological Argument, the existence of God is based on the evidence that the world has an intelligent purpose and order and that the conclusion must be a higher power. Paley claims that the universe is set as a whole and that evidence has been shown of an intelligent designer. His arguments are based on empirical evidence , which is what we can see . The parts of the universe have an order, difficulty and simplicity that bring to mind the parts of a finely crafted machine. Paley also argues that there is further evidence for a Creator God in a Universe. Just because we don't know who the artist might be, it doesn't follow that we cannot know that there is one. The main question is “Does God truly exists.” The Bible also appears to reiterate the Teleological Argument when it states in Psalm 19:1-3: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.
People of many years ago and today have different views on how this world began. People believe in different God’s and that they ruled the ancient years because of what people were taught about leaders or a higher power. So ask yourself, “If there is no God, than how does this big universe exist.” Because of this question there had to be greater power than just man to develop a whole universe and laws. As an example from a Christian stand point, when we talk about the trinity we are referring to the father, son, and the Holy Spirit; the man who died for our sins on the cross. This we refer to is the son of God.
Paley begins his argument by comparing the universe to a watch. Suppose, he says, that we come upon a watch while walking through the forest. You pick up the watch and observe that it has several parts, which allows it to perform the purpose of telling time. Also looking at this watch you notice that the parts are just the right size and put in the right order; but if the size of the parts been a little different the watch would not work at all. Even if you didn’t know how it worked, you would believe that the watch was the chance result of natural processes and you would infer that it was designed by an intelligent person. To better explain, the logic behind the watch is that the watch was for a purpose which is to tell time and the parts are fit for a purpose which also means it was put together in a certain way to make the watch function correctly to tell time. Lastly, if the parts of the watch were arranged in a different way, I would not work so it would give a purpose to tell time. But suppose the watch had another use of function, you would wonder why it was created to tell time. Every question will leave you to ask “what was the purpose and the constancy”, also everything follows a natural law.
If a thing cannot think for itself it does not have any goal or purpose unless it is directed by something that thinks: take an arrow as an example. It can only be directed to its goal and used for its purpose by someone, everything does not think for itself because it is forced by something that thinks. That something we call is ‘God’. We know that machines are always put together to serve a purposes and that it takes serious planning and assembling to make each of the parts of a work properly, even if it’s complicated. Once again, Human artifacts are the products of intelligent design and because it is intelligent, the universe is product of intelligent. Therefore, the creator of the universe is intelligent as well.
He then goes on to evaluate the fact that these natural bodies ‘lack intelligence’ - they are not conscious or emotional beings of their own movement. Movement must come from somewhere other than themselves. Intelligence that provides movement and things in the universe probably is God. For example Paley asked us to imagine crossing a heath and ‘pitching your foot against a stone’. If you were to pick up this stone you would not ask the question ‘where does this stone come from?’, but if you continued and found a watch and you pitched your foot against it, you would not do the same as you did the stone. The universe is too complex to have been changed.
There is evidence for a creator in the uniformity of the universe. This argument can be based on the laws of motion or Isaac Newton's laws of motion. The planets and gravity could not be made without designer; the designer would be God. This means the universe must have been together through planning in order for it to work today, such as a machine, and nature.
The application of Paley’s arguments can be summarized by which human objects are products that resemble our intelligent design and they all have a purpose in this universe. The universe itself is a product of intelligent design and also has a purpose indeed, but the universe is much more difficult and gigantic than a human artifact is. Therefore, there is probably a powerful and very intelligent designer who created the universe. We look at our life to be complex; life has been created with a plan. We can easily observe that there is order and complexity in the universe around us, even though it is easy to persuade that the universe has been designed but doesn’t mean that it was by god.

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