Terry Pratchett - The Science of Discworld III: Darwins Watch

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In crossing a heath, suppose I found a watch upon the ground The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker.

Divine Design, the conscious process of creation, which Paley discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and purposeful form of all life, always has purpose in mind. If the Deity can be said to play the role of Watchmaker in nature, He is an all-seeing Watchmaker.

There is grandeur in this view of life and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

There is grandeur in this view of life and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

In crossing a heath, suppose I found a watch upon the ground. The inference, I think, is inevitable. Some careless chronometric surveyor must have dropped it