Paley's Design Argument Analysis

Have you ever seen the wind? Have you seen history? We see the effects of the wind, but the wind is invisible. We have records of history, but it is by trust we believe that certain historical events happened. Television waves are invisible, but an antenna and a receiver can detect their presence. Have you ever seen your own brain? We all believe in many things that we have never seen. It is not necessary to directly observe something, to understand it exists. A point of difference between William Paley’s argument about the watch and his argument about organisms is that we have seen watchmakers, but have never seen God. I do not believe this point of difference weakens his design argument. The words “see” and “observe” are subjective.
“…if he is unseen and unknown, but raises no doubt in our minds of the existence and agency of such an artist, at some former time and in some place or other.” (Paley 117) You see a product, and assume, with all logical reasoning, someone made it. I have never seen a watchmaker make a watch right before my eyes, so for all I might know there is no such thing. However, I choose to believe there must be watchmakers because I’ve seen cooks prepare meals, computer technicians fix my computer, and construction workers build houses. Based on observing the world around me, it can be concluded that every product, thing, problem, circumstance, etc. has a creator, so a watch does too. According to this logic, if you directly observe OTHER elements, that are not an actual god which supposedly created them, you can believe they came from somewhere or an actual God and you didn’t have to witness it to believe
Since God is something different for different religions and belief systems , God can be “seen” in different ways. Someone could look at the sunset, at its most brilliant state, and say “I saw God. He exists. He’s the sunset”. Someone else could have experienced a life threatening situation, where all odds were against them surviving, and by a rare, impossible slim chance, they lived. They could say, “God exists. I saw him as I saw life flash before my eyes; he saved my life.” Someone else could just look outside at mother nature and know that nature is a form of God. The land, water, oxygen, natural resources, and food of the earth are used and observed every day. People experience life or death situations that turn into miracles every day. Certain cultures pray and meditate every day for the reason of reaching a spiritual point of nirvana, in which they “see” God. Of course there is no immortal human being walking around the world bare-foot in a white robe, whom everyone knows as God. God isn’t meant to be a person we can observe create something. Watchmakers are real human beings because their product are of human knowledge. They are just intelligent, mortal people. God is not. All religions aside, God is an idea. People constantly have ideas, but we can’t OBSERVE them in physical, until we create whatever idea it