The exact same argument that all Creationists/Evangelical Christians use goes like this. “We look at a watch and know that there was a watchmaker, we look at the painting and know there was a painter.” You might be thinking, “he’s exactly right, I can understand his logic with this argument, there must be a God! Hooray!” This argument that they make clearly had no thought put into it at all, there is a lot of variables we have to go over here. First of all, when we look at a watch, it does not “prove” that there was a watchmaker, the only thing is proves is that there is a watch! Simple as that, we may conclude straight away that there was a creator of the object judging by its beauty and complexity, fair enough but why is it that this beautiful and complex object could not form over millions of years by natural causes? And you may now be thinking, “well that’s just stupid, look at it! You’d have to be an idiot not to ‘know’ that the watch had a watch maker.”

Let’s look at this example. When look at crystals, do we assume there was a crystal maker? You would say yes, if you didn’t know how crystals were formed. But any modern scientist would disagree with you, because we know that crystals form through natural processes that take a very long period of time. We have investigated the steps that needed to be taken in order to get from the start to the finish product. From the raw materials, gradually building up to the beautiful and complex crystal. So before the scientists made the conclusion that there must have been a crystal maker, scattering crystals along the surface of the earth and burying them deep into the ground, they first ask the question how? How did this crystal come together to be what it is now, instead of pointing the finger to simple say, “God did it, no doubt about it.” Because if all we do is point the finger at God, then science does not progress at all. There would be no need to investigate the process of ‘how’ and ‘why’, because they would ‘know’ that God did it.

Apart from all that, they are absolutely correct in the sense that if we look at a watch today, we can indeed assume that it was the design of a watch maker, because we have proof of this. We know that there is an occupation out there for watch creators, we can observe with our own eyes someone making a watch. We can’t observe God in overalls making universes in his universe factory. So the argument is complete nonsense if you break it down. But lets take it even further! When we look at a modern computer, do we assume there was only one creator? No, we know that it took thousands of people, working together in their own departments to create each separate component that is inside of the computer. So if it takes thousands of people to create a computer, why could it only take one God, to create a universe? In other words, how do you know that there isn’t more than one God? Surely you can see that the universe is about a trillion times more complex than a computer, so what makes you so sure that one person did it all, why couldn’t there be a team of Gods? Hundreds, even thousands of Gods, in their own little departments creating each separate part of the universe, and then assembling it all together in the end? You might be saying, “well because in the Bible it says that there was only one creator, Yahweh.” Ok, well in the Greek religion it says that there are actually thousands of Gods in their own departments for the creation of the universe, for example the God of the sun, the God of the Sea, the God of the wind etc. Isn’t it more reasonable to say that the Greek religion better fits our logic of there having to be a team of designers, rather than just one for this enormously complex world? What makes you so sure that your single God did it all? The Greeks are just as certain as you are that it was their God’s that did it all. Think about it.