t may not keep perfect time. In the universe among every species of animals there is a food chain and even though the food chain is supposed to be fair it still comes down to the survival of the fittest. But even though there are some imperfections there is still an evident designer, as we know as God. (Copleston,Frederick(1976)) Paley’s third premise argues that because of our ignorance to the knowledge of the watch and the universe we still are uncertain to how they may work in some aspects: but even though our ignorance may overcome knowledge it is still evident that an intelligent designer was present in the making of the universe on the watch.Paley’s fourth premise and fifth are somewhat the same. Paley argues that the pieces of the watch are a metaphor for the way the universe is. It is this way because they were made that way and were declared to do what the intelligent designer designated them to do. The design plan of the watch is the universe and the order represents all that exists in and outside the watch and the universe. This premise concludes that the great designer is God. Paley’s sixth premise states he would be shocked to hear that if the watch and its mechanism do not prove God’s existence then it would only be a motive in our mind. But he believes that the metaphor of the watch does prove God’s existencePaley’s seventh premise argues the watch is the way it is because the laws of “metallic nature”. The law of metallic nature is that the watch does what it does because of nature and because nature is part of the universe the watchmaker must have created it. Just like the laws of nature or any law, as a matter of fact is created by some type of agent. The agent is supposed to represent God and law is the universes. Therefore, God created the universe, which proves God, exists.In Paley’s eighth and final premise he argues that there are many things we do n...
