Comparing Paideian Theory And William Paley's Theory

It has been a while since I have taken a look at William Paley’s theory and Darwin’s theory. However, in Paideia freshmen year we spent a lot of time on these two theorists, which helped me a lot in this reading because I remembered a little bit about Paley’s ideas and theories on natural theology.
What do you find important? What I found important in this reading is the basis of Paley’s idea, the watchmaker. Paley believes that design implies that there is a designer. He uses the analogy of a watch to show that in order for a watch to work it needs a spring or someone to make the watch work. He compares this to the idea of natural theology and that in order for the intelligent design of the universe to happen there needs to be a designer. This idea then becomes the

The ideas that he portrays in his writings is that only persons can contrive and design. Contrivance proves the personality of the deity or God. However, that deity cannot be the universe or anything that we can see. These ideas are the basis of Paley’s theory of natural theology. This goes against Darwin’s idea of natural selection because in Darwin’s theory it is a natural process that just happens over long periods of time. However, to Paley there needs to be a designer or maker of the universe and that animals cannot change on their own. Animals don’t have the ability to contrive their own limbs and senses, basically that a designer changes these animals in the universe. Darwin on the other hand believes that animals have the ability to adapt and change on their own based on survival of the