THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN 111 



is planned for some wise and reasonable end. 

 And where the evidence of design is so convin- 

 cing must we not believe that there was a De- 

 signer ? " Words like these he spoke, and we 

 know because everything is so perfectly con- 

 trived that there must have been a contriver, 

 who knew all from the beginning. We are com- 

 pelled to believe that there is a God. 



Shall we believe it less because we find in the 

 creatures about us intelligence and the power to 

 care for their own lives ? Has God gone on a 

 visit because these living creatures are looking 

 out for themselves ? Were they made less per- 

 fectly in the beginning because when new con- 

 ditions surround them they are able to change 

 to meet the strange requirements ? This is not 

 less evidence of a Designer, but more. It was 

 long said that the existence of a watch was 

 proof of a watchmaker who had planned and 

 put together all the parts so that they worked 

 harmoniously. But if the watch had the power 

 to grow small to fit a small pocket, or large to 

 fit a large one, to become luminous by night, 

 and to correct its own time by the sun instead 

 of being regulated by outside interference, what 

 should we have said — that it was proof there 

 was no watchmaker ? or that it showed a far 

 more skillful one, since he could make a living, 

 self -regulating, adaptive watch? 



