The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, it had lain there for ever. But suppose I had found a watch on the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer. Some human brain must’ve designed it, got it made and dropped there. There are many many complicated designs found in the world, not designed by human. Who must’ve designed those? Living things are too improbable and too beautifully designed to have come into existence by chance. How, then, did they come into existence? Dawkin says it is by gradual step by step transformation from simple beginnings, from primordial entities sufficiently simple to have come into existence by chance. Each successive change in the gradual evolutionary process was simple enough, relative to its predecessor, to have arisen by chance. But ...