The document discusses the design argument for the existence of God. It uses analogies of finding objects like a watch or arranged stones in the desert to argue that the complexity and order in the natural world point to an intelligent designer, just as these objects would imply a maker. It explains William Paley's watchmaker argument that the intricate details and mechanisms in living things could not have arisen by chance but require an intelligent creator, in the same way a watch requires a watchmaker.

1. Reasons to believe in God 1. The Design Argument

3. Imagine you are the presiding judge over a murder trial.

8. The chances of the universe arising as it is now as a result of a big bang are 10 to the power of 60. If the force was a little greater it would not work if it was a little weaker it would not work. 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

11. Coincidence? Chance? Accident?!

14. You continue your walk and happen to find a watch lying in the middle of the desert. Would you suspect that a windstorm somehow threw these pieces together and randomly created a watch?

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44. Does this work? A Watch is complicated Complicated things aren’t random It must have been designed There must be a watchmaker who designed it 1 2 3 4

45. The earth is complicated Complicated things aren’t random It must have been designed There must be a God who designed it 1 2 3 4

47. Evidence of design in the world