The Divine Watchmaker Fails to Persuade Some Thoughts on an Old Argument I b elieve that actual philosophers have created far better treatments of this, but I haven't read them. So, I can proceed without intimidation (maybe a little trepidation). Christian fundamentalists argue that a clock could not possibly be created by evolution. The complexity of it requires that there must be a watchmaker. Likewise, complex creatures, such as humans, must have been created by the Creator. To me, it suggests the opposite. Many creatures have clock-like functions built in, e.g. circadian rhythms, jet lag, etc., which are more biological and less mechanical in our way of categorizing, For some reason, two unconnected examples also have popped into my head, sleep and mosquitos. First, sleep. Why would the watchmaker create sleep and dreams, particularly rapid eye movement (REM) sleep which occurs during dreaming? I