Minnich, Behe, and Paley reach the same conclusion, that complex organisms must have been designed using the same reasoning, except that Professors Behe and Minnich refuse to identify the designer, whereas Paley inferred from the presence of design that it was God.

He developed an early version of the watchmaker analogy, which was later developed by William Paley.

" " This argument for the existence of God was advanced early in the 19th century by Reverend Paley " " The only apparent difference between the argument made by Paley and the argument for ID, as expressed by defense expert witnesses Behe and Minnich, is that ID's ' official position ' does not acknowledge that the designer is God.

Gay ’ s theological utilitarianism was developed and popularized by William Paley.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

It is possible that Bentham was spurred on to publish after he saw the success of Paley ’ s The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy.

He also argued that if the “ average happiness enjoyed remains undiminished, Utilitarianism directs us to make the number enjoying it as great as possible .” This was also the view taken earlier by William Paley.

William Paley ( July 1743 – 25 May 1805 ) was an English Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.

Paley was Born in Peterborough, England, and was educated at Giggleswick School, of which his father was headmaster, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

In 1776 Paley was presented to the rectory of Musgrave in Westmorland, which was exchanged soon after for Appleby.

In 1782 Edmund Law, otherwise the mildest of men, was most particular that Paley should add a book on political philosophy to the moral philosophy, which Paley was reluctant to write.

In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a sometime actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong .. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted.

The final version of the Modern Lovers, with Andy Paley, Brennan Totten and ( initially ) Asa Brebner again, toured and recorded between 1985 and 1988.

William Paley developed these ideas with his version of the watch maker analogy.

Earlier in the century David Hume had argued against notions of design with counter examples drawn from monstrosity, imperfect forms of testimony and probability, and it has been assumed that Paley could not have read Hume.

However, in both published works and in manuscript letters, you find that Paley was engaged directly with Hume from his time as an undergraduate to his last works.

Paley adopted a number of Hume's points, although he rejected most ( but not all ) of those aspects of his arguments which were considered to be inconsistent with Christian theology.

Notably, Paley and Hume both rejected Scottish moral sense theory, on the grounds that one could not know with certainty that there was such a thing as a moral sense.

* Paley, William, Natural Theology, with an introduction and notes by Matthew D. Eddy and David M. Knight, Oxford University Press, 2006.

By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS and became its majority owner with 51 % of the business.

Paley had no such split loyalties: his — and his affiliates '— success rose and fell with the quality of CBS programming.

" He possessed enormous capital within that company, and as the unknown form of television news loomed large, he would spend it freely, first in radio news, then in television, taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy first, then eventually William S. Paley himself, and with a foe that formidable, even the vast Murrow account would soon run dry.

One day, while Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were hard at work at NBC writing their venerable Amos and Andy show, a knock came on the door ; it was Paley himself, with an astonishing offer: " Whatever you are getting now I will give you twice as much.

" Capturing NBC's cornerstone show was coup enough, but Paley repeated in 1948 with longtime NBCers Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Red Skelton, as well as former CBS defectors Jack Benny, radio's top-rated comedian, and Burns and Allen.

Paley achieved this rout with a legal agreement reminiscent of his 1928 contract that caused some NBC station affiliates to jump ship and join CBS: CBS would buy the stars ' names as a property, in exchange for a large lump sum and a salary.

In the same year ( 1879 ) he published The Economics of Industry with his wife Mary Paley.

The socialite Babe Paley gave a lunch in her honour at St. Regis with Truman and Cecil Beaton as guests, and Gloria Vanderbilt gave her a dress by Mainbocher.

Paley, arguing more than fifty years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, held that the complexity of living organisms was evidence of the existence of a divine creator by drawing a parallel with the way in which the existence of a watch compels belief in an intelligent watchmaker.

Thereafter, he signed to a solo record deal with Sire Records label boss Seymour Stein and variously worked with Andy Paley, Russ Titelman and Landy's girlfriend as co-authors on the new material.

However, under pressure from network president William S. Paley and his wife Babe, along with many network affiliates and longtime fans of Gunsmoke ( which had been airing late on Saturday nights ), to reverse its threatened cancellation, CBS rescheduled the Western to an earlier time slot on Monday evenings at 7: 30 P. M. As a result, Gilligan's Island was unceremoniously canceled at practically the last minute even though the cast members were all on vacation.

CBS began to adapt the popular novel as a miniseries, but the historians Virginius Dabney ( a direct descendant of Jefferson's sister Martha ) and Dumas Malone successfully campaigned against it directly with the network's president William S. Paley, and persuaded him to kill the project.

In his other work Littlewood collaborated with Raymond Paley on Littlewood – Paley theory in Fourier theory, and with Cyril Offord in combinatorial work on random sums, in developments that opened up fields still intensively studied.

John Law tried to get Paley to remove the passage, because it would prevent him becoming a bishop.

John Law observed at this time that " Paley has missed a mitre ".

Although Paley devotes a chapter of Natural Theology to astronomy, written by his old friend John Law and the Dublin Astronomer Royal John Brinkley, they did not consider astronomy to provide sound evidence of " designedness.

None of the three was interested in assuming day-to-day management of the network, so they installed wealthy 26-year-old William S. Paley, son of a Philadelphia cigar family and in-law of the Levys, as president.

Paley's father, Samuel Paley, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, ran a cigar company and, as the company became increasingly successful, the new millionaire moved his family to Philadelphia in the early 1920s.

William Paley matriculated at Western Military Academy in Alton, IL then received his college degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in expectation that he would take an increasingly active role running the family cigar business.

Within a year, under William's leadership, cigar sales had more than doubled, and, in 1928, the Paley family secured majority ownership of the network.

Over the years, Paley sold portions of his family stockholding in CBS.

His father, John Frere, the member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and would have been senior wrangler in 1763 but for the competition of William Paley ; his mother, Jane, daughter of John Hookham, a rich London merchant, was cultured and wrote verse in private.

When D ' Amico left to spend time with his family, he was replaced in 2001 and early 2002 by Andy Paley, and in 2004 by Nelson Bragg.

Grace Paley ( née Goodside ) was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine.

Princess Paley with family ( about 1910 )

Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley ( Наталья Павловна Палей ), Countess de Hohenfelsen ( December 5, 1905 – December 27, 1981 ) was a member of the Romanov family.