The first of these objections being that if one has never seen the making of a watch, known a watchmaker, had the ability to make a watch, or understand how a watch is made, why should one infer there is a watchmaker for this watch? Paley explains that these are ignorant objections and knowing the watch exists is all that needs to be known to comprehend that its watchmaker exists.
The second of these objections is that the watch sometimes does not always work properly, or it seldom works exactly as it should. Paley responds with “it is not necessary that a machine be perfect in order to show with what design it was made”. It is even less necessary for a machine to be perfect if the only question is whether it were made with any design at