When making watches, it's turtles all the way down...

[evil_mr_tim]

Greetings, True-Believers (in the Stan Lee sense, of course, not theistically).
One of my guilty pleasures (and I use the term loosely, as it is sometimes quite distressing) is watching YouTube videos and reading blog-posts/articles, which are in favour of fundamentalist religions, creationism, or (as is often the case) both. I said ‘religions’ in

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[beliael]

All I want to add is that it'll be a whole different story if Paley hadn't stumbled across a pocket-watch, but instead stumbled across a watchmaker (who, for some reason, was making watches on a heath). His analogy wouldn't work at all, if one were to assume that the watch was being made by a human, Paley would know that humans don't spontaneously appear out of nothing. Furthermore, seeing the bits and pieces of the watch around the watchmaker as it's being assembled would clue Paley in (unless he was an idiot) that those metal parts would've come from a metal-workers etc. Yay for outsourcing?

P.S. Heath crossing sounds like some sort of Victorian sport.

[evil_mr_tim]

I'm pretty sure it was a sport, in the sense that they would use the word 'sport' to describe any jovial activity. They also used it to describe people who are pliable to diverse or unpleasant activities, they are 'good' sports.

[sweet_sweetback]

The sport, such as it is, is the fine old English one of rambling, which consists of jauntily traversing heaths, moors, meadows, pastures, fields, dales and all other verdant, unwooded countryside of the kind sexually charged in 19th and early 20th century English fiction. Such a pastime wouldn't be possible here, owing to our lack of said verdant countryside and the potential for violent conflict alluded to by Jamie in response to another post, but in England in Paley's time it was very fashionable in a Rousseauian getting-back-to-nature sort of way. The Romantics, particularly Coleridge, were celebrated ramblers. However it would be scurrilous to draw any comparison between the great, opium-addled dreamer-up of distant, exotic places and Paley.

[evil_mr_tim]

That's the best thing I ever saw!

Amazing text..

[anonymous]

i am gonna show this to my friend, bro

thank you

[anonymous]

well done, man