The mechanics of our hands are very complicated. Biomechanics have not yet replicated the movements of our hands successfully after years of trying so what are the chances of it happening by chance? From a mathematical point of view, slim.
However, could not these features have evolved? Over millions of years, creatures could of developed muscles that gave them the opposable thumb and the ability to grip. We cannot doubt animals and humans evolve, there is empirical evidence.
Some argue the earth could not happen by chance. The probability of the ‘Big Bang’ creating a ‘perfect world’ is minuscule, 1 in a million. However, if we think of all the planets in our universes that are not sustaining life then it does not seem so improbable.
Back to this ‘perfect watch’, its not perfect. It does not automatically adjust the time when the clocks go forward. Instead it spitefully ticks away knowing that you will be late for work. Alternatively, does it remember leap years? Does it give you an apology? No because it is a mean and uncaring watch.
Our world is much like this watch, its imperfect. It is rude and selfish. People are staving and we are sitting here stuffing our faces. Our amazing hands are not so amazing after all, they wear out, muscles and bones break. Surely, an intelligent designer would design us with out these faults.
It is not just us with these faults. Meteorites crash into planets, the sun will one day plunge us into darkness if its heat has not dried us out and we could be sucked into a black hole.
You could say ‘nobodies perfect’, but God, by definition, is a perfect being. If God created the universe, it would have to be perfect. David Hume believes that the universe does not have to be created by a perfect being merely an intelligent one.
The idea that God sat down and designed then made organisms like humans and planets, Hume thinks is absurd. “Organisms are born from parents not designed and created by someone” he believed that its plausible that our universe was born from a ‘parent’ universe much like stars are born and develop.
This parent universe is designed by an intelligent being which does not have to be omnipotent, omnipresent or omni-benevolent simply an intelligent being. Where did this intelligent being come from? Why is it plausible for him to exist but not God? Surely, God could of built the parent universe Hume talks about. It does not have to be the being Hume talks about.
Hume points out how little we know about universes, we have only experienced one. They could occur naturally and not require an intelligent designer.
One major problem with the teleological argument is that it talks about the universe as a whole when you cannot talk about describe it using words fitting to parts of it. It is like asking a group of people how old the group is as a general. The universe is a very complicated thing. It all cannot be explained by one answer.
