What is the clockmaker theory or the watchmaker theory?

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the watchmaker theory is a strong part of the enlightenment era in 18th century europe. enlightenment philosophes (not philospheRs) believed that the creation of human beings could be compared to the creation of a watch. if all the tiny and intricate pieces of a watch were scattered around randomly, they could not just simply come together into a complex functioning watch on their own. thus, the philosophes used the watchmaker theory to argue that humans are so complex, a higher being must have put them together as we could not have just come together at random.
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