Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion by Susan Jacoby

Author:Susan Jacoby
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Comparative Religion, Religion, Civilization, History
ISBN: 9781101870969
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2016-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

The intelligent designer, then, accounts for miracles and the ordinary workings of nature, for the demonstrable and the undemonstrable. Boyle’s work laid the foundation for the most famous argument for intelligent design, articulated in the late eighteenth century by the English philosopher William Paley, whose “watchmaker God” served as the foundation for Christian deism during the High Enlightenment and frequently appears on anti-evolution Web sites today.*6 Boyle, too, had used images of clocks in his seventeenth-century arguments for intelligent design. Neither Boyle nor Paley came to grips with the fact that all of the marvelous inner workings of a clock or watch are useless if they lack an outside source of energy—in their day provided by human hands winding a mechanism, in ours mainly by batteries or digital chips. This does not pose a logical (or theological) difficulty if man himself is the product of intelligent design (apart from the question of why an intelligent designer would not make a man who could invent an everlasting battery).

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