God and Philosophy
There are many traditional views on religion and the existence of God. Some people believe there is a God and some do not, some think there is one God and some think there are many. There are also others who do not believe in God but a higher power that created us and the universe and everything in it. They cannot explain why or how but for some it's just a feeling or belief that keeps them going. It's important to view this subject from every angle, from the people who think there is a God to the people to who do not and all the way to people who just can't give a rational explanation for what happened.
Many people who do believe in God like to give the argument of Intelligent Design. They believe that all the things in the known world and universe are so great that they could never have come about simply by chance, and that they must have been the work of an intelligent designer. This is what brought about Paley's watchmaker analogy. He thought that the design of the universe and all things in it was similar to the design of a watch. Both are so intricate in their making that neither one could have come about simply by chance. So if you were walking along and saw a watch on the ground you would know that someone had made that watch. The idea that the universe and many things in it are so complex and intricate in their making can only mean that they had an intelligent designer, with all the things that make up the universe they could not have simply come together by chance. Paley puts forth the idea that since the universe is like a watch in the way that it is framed and has parts that are put together for a purpose ( even thought we may ...