THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (2 of 9 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 16 PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

A person who had never had contact with civilization upon finding a watch which was running might examine it and after some contemplation come to the conclusion that someone must have made it, but why someone made it would be a mystery to him. He might throw it aside or hang it around his neck for an ornament, or he might believe that no one would go to all of the trouble of making such an intricate mechanism for no reason at all and would be led to seek for an answer. It is conceivable that he might be intrigued by the movement of the second-hand, and in time observe that each time it made a revolution the long hand would move one division. At intervals during the day he might notice too that the shorter hand had moved, and then the fact might strike him that the short hand was in the same position each evening when the sun went down. More and more details would fill in the picture until he realized that the watch had been made for keeping track of the time of day and that it must have been made by a very smart person. Although not a philosopher, this poor benighted heathen, unbeknown to himself, was using the Teleological argument.

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