All that is really new is that its proponents are less than sincere in what they are peddling and perhaps ignorant of the history of natural theology. Paley argues that an eye and a telescope are so much specialized in their function that they cannot be the product of an accident. This column is part of our ongoing opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. [5] Indeed, he says “the care of the Creator is seen where it is wanted.” I interpret this as the world being “contrived,” similar to how we would describe an artificial plot (the convenient placement of Old Spock on Delta Vega in the latest Star Trek film, for example). IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. Replace the watch with the flagellum and you have Michael Behe’s