How does the Watchmaker analogy suggest there's only one God?
For the watch to be invented, it required a group consciousness…Society had to have progressed to a certain point before that watch could even be invented. (Like you can’t invent a computer just after the hammer.)
But for a single God to exist that suggests the watchmaker does not have to be part of some group consciousness or society. And if that’s true, show me a feral child who has written a 300 page novel.
I’m not trying to prove atheism or theism. I’m just saying the analogy doesn't prove a single god exists unless the watchmaker built the battery-operated mechanical watch before experiencing any type of socialization.
If God didn't need prior knowledge to create, why use the analogy of the watchmaker when clearly he could not have invented the battery-operated mechanical watch without prior knowledge? God has no teacher.
True, there had to have been a designer, a metalsmith, a jeweler, a glassmaker and a glasscutter.
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Xtians: how do you reconcile the Watchmaker analogy with freewill?
If a watchmaker built a watch that decided on a whim to change time zones, run backwards, chime intermittently or decide to only tell time on alternate days, you'd probably think it was a pretty crappy watch, and probably consider the watchmaker to be an incompetent, would you not?
Thanks in advance.
HTaciana: Exactly.
I don't know of any watches that "chime intermittently or decide to only tell time on alternate days". And I certainly don't know of any watches that possess free will.
