Explain Paley's argument for the existence of God based on the apparent order and design in the world

                                                                         He told people to imagine they’ve just found a watch in the middle of a field an old-fashioned watch which shows the cogs moving. He asked what is it about the watch that makes it different from the stones and pebbles lying around? He said that the answer is design. It’s obvious that the watch has been carefully constructed by a human watchmaker. The wheels, coils and chains inside the watch are shaped and assembled with a specific purpose in mind: telling the time. If the parts had been different, or fitted together in different ways, it wouldn’t do its job.                                                                                                                       The chances of a watch being constructed by blind chance are small. Where we have something that’s clearly been designed for a specific purpose, we can safely say that a Designer gave it that purpose. Where there’s a watch, Paley points out, there must be a watchmaker.                                                                     Paley then went on to draw the comparison between the watch and the world of nature. A fish’s eye is much larger and rounder than a mammal’s eye, with a crystalline lens that’s good at concentrating rays of light passed through water. As Paley wrote, “what plainer manifestation of design can there be than this difference?” Surely, if someone designed the watch, then by the same logic someone designed the fish? And the same goes for every other creature whose design is described in Paley’s book.                                                                              Paley’s idea would have been greatly accepted apart from the fact that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection did  what Paley thought was impossible: it described how apparent design in nature can arise without any hint of a Designer.                                                                                                                Some people would however question evolution and go back to Paley’s way of thinking since they would believe there’s more in the universe to be explained than the design of a fish’s eye? The universe contains life not just any old universe would allow life to develop in the first place. To get life on a planet many things are needed for example matter, energy, chemistry, atoms,gravity and many other things.  Luckily, our universe has all these things, and in precisely the right amounts to make it possible for life to develop. But without each of these key values being exactly as they are, there would be no life. Paley argued that we can’t put the nature of the universe down to coincidence.              So we’re forced to believe either that God exists, and He designed the universe in order to create human life, or that we owe our existence to a huge coincidence after the big bang. Atoms just coming together by chance.  It’s remotely possible that the universe is special ‘just by chance’, in the same way that it’s remotely possible that I could have won the lottery every week for a year just by being lucky. But since Paley was a scientist, he instaed prefered something that doesn’t depend on such ridiculous coincidences. His argument was very as scientific as he could make it, one thing leading to the other. He said human belongings are products of intelligent design. The universe resembles human products so therefore the universe is a product of intelligent design. However since the universe is complex and gigantic, in comparison to human products. Therefore, there probably is a powerful and vastly intelligent designer who created the universe. Palely said this was God. Natasha De Stefano