Attacking Paley’s argument: How clock parts CAN assemble themselves into a functioning clock.

Here’s a clever video that challenges the commonly mentioned creationist claim (based on William Paley’s arguments ^[1]) that evolution is impossible for the same reasons that it is impossible for the parts of a clock to assemble themselves into a functioning clock.

Here’s the main point made by this video: When discussing evolution, make sure you are comparing apples to apples (clocks are not living organisms). And beware straw man arguments.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0[/youtube]

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