Premium Not by Design Retiring Darwin’s Watchmaker – John O. Reiss

More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe necessitated a designer. Today, some 150 years since Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published, the argument of design is seeing a revival. This provocative work tells how Darwin left the door open for this revival–and at the same time argues for a new conceptual framework that avoids the problematic teleology inherent in Darwin…