"5 Reasons: Why I Still Believe in God" - DAY 16

Day 16 – the author’s favorite

I shall always be convinced that a watch proves a watch-maker, and that a universe proves a God.  –VOLTAIRE

A watch has design; therefore, there must be a designer (a watchmaker). The universe has design; therefore, there must be a Designer (a Creator God). This is the classic Argument from Design. It was introduced over two hundred years ago and has worn the test of time.¹ I am aware that atheists have attempted to pick it apart and discredit it (tomorrow, we will look at one of their rebuttals), but I have found nothing they say that compels me to abandon the argument as originally put forth. Unlike many theological arguments, it can be easily understood and bears the seal-of-approval of our common sense. It continues to be, after years of reflection, my favorite argument for God's existence, the one I instinctively turn to first, the toughest for the atheist to counter.

Daily Quotation

Quoted in Steve Kumar, Christianity for Skeptics, 10.

¹The Argument from Design is, in reality, much older than two hundred years. In fact, there are variations of it in Jewish and Islamic writings early in the second millennium. It was not until the eighteenth century Enlightenment that Christian philosophers, like Paley and Voltaire, began to restate it and others, like David Hume, sought to discredit it.