William Paley, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
Contrivance — parts adjusted to one another for an end — cannot be accounted for by any principle we know except intention. The inference from contrivance to a contriver is not weakened by our never having witnessed the making, nor by imperfections, nor by parts whose use is undiscovered.123
It is as though an op¬ tician, when he had a nearer object to view, should rectify his instrument by putting in another glass, at the same time drawing out also his tube to a different length. Observe a new-born child first lifting Tap its eye¬ lids. What does the opening of the curtain dis¬ cover? The anterior part of two pellucid globes, B4 £8 APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT.Natural Theology
The argument from design remains as it was. Marks of design and contrivance are no more accounted for now, than they were before. In the same thing, we may ask for the cause of different properties. We may ask for the cause of the colour of a body, of its hardness, of its head; and these causes may be all different.Natural Theology
I Digitized by LiOOQ IC 6 The Divine Benevolence But either of these, and still more both of them, being too much to be attributed to accident, noth": ing remains but the first supposition, that God, when / he created the human species, wished their happi- { ness, and made for them the provision which he has \ made, with that vie'w, and for that purpose.The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
Universally taught as the classic statement and universally reported as having been answered by natural selection.