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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
William Paley’s comparison of the purposeful arrangement of a watch with the complexity of nature: just as a watch suggests a watchmaker, nature suggests a designer.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 1.5, 1.6 · Paper 3
William Paley’s comparison between the purposeful arrangement of a watch’s parts and the complexity of living things, used to argue that nature also has a designer.
Specification 2.5, 2.6 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
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William Paley’s comparison between a watch’s purposeful arrangement of parts and the apparent design of the natural world: as a watch suggests a watchmaker, nature suggests a designer.
William Paley’s comparison between a watch, whose organised parts indicate a watchmaker, and nature, whose complex organisation he argued indicates God.
