The Problem with Christians

[Esquilax]

Natural, or designed?  And what are you basing that on?

Especially given that, if you bear the analogy out to its fullest extent, all objects are equally as designed:

Our christian chewtoy stands on a beach. The beach is made of watches. The ocean that laps at the shore is made of watches. The country that he is in, and every country beyond the sea of timepieces, are also made of watches. The entire planet is watches. A sun made of watches hangs high overhead, the gravitational center of a solar system of watches, and the gravity that causes that solar system to orbit the watch-sun... is watches. Our christian sits in his watch galaxy, which is itself just a minuscule part of a watch universe that comprises all of watch-creation. Stopping, seeing something unique and attention grabbing among the grains of watch-sand on the watch-beach, the christian reaches down with ticking hands and picks it up, bringing it close to his watchlike face, so that his watchlike eyes can regard it, for at least a few minutes before it turns quarter-past three, and the hands in his watch face will obscure his vision for a minute on one side, and an hour on the other. The christian reflects on how nice it is that he, too, is a watch: he always knows what time it is.

"There's something unique about this," the christian ponders, the object securely contained in his clockwork fingers, surrounded on all sides by air molecules, all of which are watches. Glittering metal sunlight reflects off of the polished glass faces of literally everything, throwing up brilliant refractions made of watches, and suddenly, the christian understands: "I know!" He says, each word a perfectly formed watch spewed from his watch-mouth, as watch-clouds move momentarily over the watch-sun. "This is a watch! It must have been designed, because it differs so greatly from everything else on this beach in ways that could not be naturally produced!"

Turning timepiece legs, the theist watch walks up the watch-beach, holding his designed watch, with a spring in his step. Metaphorically speaking. As distinct from all the literal springs, because his feet are watches. He has somewhere to be, now: he must show all the other watches this watch that he found, and all the features of it that make it a uniquely designed object.

Somehow, he'll find the time.

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