XVI 



THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN 



BUT if the birds are making themselves into 

 new species, where is the place for God in the 

 universe ? Did not God make all kinds of crea- 

 tures in the beginning ? How can they go on 

 being made without God ? 



These are questions every one ought to ask, 

 but did God leave his world after He had 

 made it and go a long way off ? Did He wind 

 it up like a watch to go till it should run down ? 

 Is the world a machine, or is it alive ? 



Long ago the wise and good man Socrates 

 argued that if you did not know there was a 

 God at all, you could at least infer it because 

 everything was so wonderfully made. " There 

 is our body," said he : " every part of it so per- 

 fect and so reasonable. Consider how the eyes 

 not only please us with agreeable sensations but 

 are protected in every way. The eyebrows stand 

 like a thicket to keep the perspiration from them, 

 the lids are a curtain to shut out too great light, 

 the lashes screen them from dust, everything 



