The watchmaker analogy seems timeless—antiquated, yet always in fashion. The most famous version comes from the English clergyman William Paley’s 1802 book Natural Theology. Richard Dawkins ...

The watchmaker analogy seems timeless—antiquated, yet always in fashion. The most famous version comes from the English clergyman William Paley’s 1802 book Natural Theology. Richard Dawkins ...

THE eye has long been an evolutionary battleground. Ever since William Paley came up with the watchmaker analogy in 1802 – that something as complex as a watch must have a maker – creationists ...

Dawkins called his 1986 answer to Paley, The Blind Watchmaker; a sort of tribute. William Paley was rector at what is now Sunderland Minster between 1796 and 1805 when he died there.

William Paley's famous 1802 image of the watch and watchmaker prodded Charles Darwin towards his naturalistic theory of evolution.