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? 



