William Paley had two views regarding finding a watch on a beach and asked us to ponder in our minds how did it get there. His first theory was to imagine that it was placed there randomly or it was placed there by the ocean waves. Secondly, he thinks that given the design of the watch, it had a designer even if we had never seen such an object in our lives before. Paley’s main thoughts, he believed there was a creator of such complex instrument (Roca and Schuh)
According to Paley, he had an analogy when comparing the watch and nature. In Roca and Schuh, he wants us to evaluate the intricacy of the watch in comparison to the complexity of nature and natural organism (152). Paley argues that if we assess the complexity of nature and