Is the intricacy of the human body the work of a designer? Or are we the result of impersonal and chaotic forces?

Perhaps the inevitable outcome of an infinite number of multiverses? Has our planet been finely tuned to sustain life?

Or does it only appear that way?

There are a number of traditional arguments for the existence of God, and here's another one,

the teleological argument.

Teleology is the study of a thing's purpose or design.

So the teleological argument says that when we look at our world, we see a

design that is consistent with there being a designer. One famous illustration is the one about

the watchmaker. English philosopher William Paley came up with this in 1802. He said if in crossing a field

you came across a rock, you probably wouldn't think much of it. But say you came across a watch.

In looking at it, you would logically conclude that the watch was designed. You wouldn't say

this watch is obviously the product of random formation, especially if you took the back off and looked inside and saw that each minute cog and gear worked together in exquisite harmony to move the tiny hands on the watch's face so that if one minute piece were missing, it wouldn't work.

In the same way, when we come across the intricate

order, balance, consistency and pattern that is intrinsic to life and the universe, the way the

parts work together to make a working whole, it is logical to conclude that this is not

the product of random formation,

but is in fact intentional design.

Study the human body and there is an incredible intricacy inside each one of us.

Consider the way that the tiny bones of your ear are so ordered that they're able to translate incoming sound waves

into a nerve which so communicates with your brain that you're currently able to hear a British man

talking to you, for better or for worse. I'm guessing most people are listening to this on a smartphone

and we'd most likely smile at someone who suggested that a smartphone only appears to be designed, that it has the ability to download and play podcasts by accident, and a human body is a great deal more sophisticated than a smartphone.

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