The Teleological Argument
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William Paley was an English churchman whose writings in defense of Christianity were widely read in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most important work is Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1801). In this work Paley argues for the intelligent design of the universe based upon its similarity to objects we know to be the product of intelligent design, such as a watch. The present reading is from Chapter 1 of this work.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006