(October 4, 2015 at 11:20 pm)TaraJo Wrote:(October 4, 2015 at 10:36 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Doesn't he notice the watch exactly because it's so out of place? Isn't it the intelligent design of the watch that makes it unnatural?
Define the word "unnatural" and I'll be able to answer that.
If by unnatural, you mean something that exists outside the natural world, the only thing I can think of that's unnatural is.... God, or any other supernatural being out there.
Here you go:
Quote:natural
adjective
1Existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind:carrots contain a natural antisepticnatural disasters such as earthquakes
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
That would be why one would be surprised by a watch on a beach that one had thought was untouched by humans. A watch is not natural in the sense above.
But if one is interested in the Watchmaker analogy, the wiki page is a good introduction to it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
