William Paley came up with the teleological argument. This is the philosophical study of nature by trying to describe things in terms of their apparent purpose and their directive principle. According to Paley, the inference from the observation of the complicated design of the universe to the conclusion of a universe-maker who constructed and designed its use cannot be avoided. He explains in an argument that if he would’ve have stumbled on a rock and wondered how that rock came to be, it would be very difficult to answer that, and saying that is has been there forever is absurd. This would not be true if the stone were to be a watch though. He argues that the complexity of a watch implies a watch-maker, so likewise the complexity of the universe
