I have found a watch Keeping time perfectly, Beautiful gears and cogs click, shift, wound tight, And the Theist beside me says: "Such a thing could not come into being by chance! Surely there is an Intelligent Designer." I could shrug or nod but instead I look closer At the watch And the way it grinds its gears. I see a bigger cog pinch a smaller cog; I see something with teeth bite something--I can hear it now-- That is screaming. And suddenly each second reveals Another tooth, another claw, The weaker parts are torn to pieces or swallowed whole. The strongest survive for a while Until time kills them too. Death by life by death by life by death, Pain impressed upon them all, The only purpose to be heard: the passage of tick tock tick tock tooth claw; of time. Unless (until?) The clock wears down And time ceases to exist.
I turn to the Theist beside me and say: "Intelligent Design? No friend, it is Ethical Design That demands an investigation."