(February 28, 2021 at 12:18 am)AFTT47 Wrote: The biggest difference between living beings and the watch is the nature of the atoms on which they are primarily based.
Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen can self-assemble into complex molecules through natural order. The atoms comprising the watch cannot.
The watchmaker argument seems logical on the surface but if examined closely, one can see a false equivalence.
They can, it is just vastly more unlikely.